The Looming Tower 2018
Created by Lawrence Wright, Dan Futterman, Alex Gibney
- War & Politics, Drama
- 50 min episodes
- 1 season
- 10 episodes
- Ended
- TV-MA
While Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda become a global threat, the rivalry between the CIA and FBI inadvertently sets the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the Iraq War.
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Grave, earnest, epic and classical in form.
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- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
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Cast
- Jeff DanielsJohn O'Neill
- Tahar RahimAli Soufan
- Wrenn SchmidtDiane Priest
- Bill CampRobert Chesney
- Louis CancelmiVince Stuart
- Virginia KullKathy Shaughnessy
- Ella Rae PeckHeather
- Sullivan JonesFloyd Bennet
- Michael StuhlbargRichard Clarke
- Peter SarsgaardMartin Schmidt
Crew
- Lawrence WrightCreator
- Dan FuttermanCreator
- Alex GibneyCreator
- Will BatesOriginal Music Composer
- Peter FeldmanProducer
- Ali SoufanProducer
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Seasons
- Miniseries10 eps · 2018
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