Seasons & episodes

S1 · E1The System Was Blinking Red 2021-09-01 · 53 min＋

Interviews and chilling archival recordings chronicle the chaos that unfolded during the 9/11 attacks, whose origins can be traced to the 1980s.

S1 · E2A Place of Danger 2021-09-01 · 53 min＋

Survivors recount the horrors they endured on 9/11. Immediately after the attacks, George W. Bush begins charting America's aggressive military response.

S1 · E3The Dark Side 2021-09-01 · 64 min＋

Learning the hijackers benefitted from gaps in US intelligence, the White House justifies a secret surveillance program and "enhanced interrogation."

S1 · E4The Good War 2021-09-01 · 63 min＋

With no cohesive strategy, the war in Afghanistan squanders early successes and backfires, fueling disillusionment, corruption and a Taliban resurgence.

S1 · E5Graveyard of Empires 2021-09-01 · 67 min＋

After two decades, the US aims to end its longest-ever war, but its withdrawal threatens to plunge Afghanistan back into repressive, bloody violence.