The boys swoop in on Zero Dark Thirty like modified Black Hawk helicopters with guest Spencer Ackerman, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump. Kathryn Bigelow's 2013 torture fest earned major critical plaudits for its unflinching view of the GWOT's dark side, but was it all in service of an enormous lie — that torture got Osama Bin Laden?

The boys swoop in on Zero Dark Thirty like modified Black Hawk helicopters with guest Spencer Ackerman, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump. Kathryn Bigelow's 2013 torture fest earned major critical plaudits for its unflinching view of the GWOT's dark side, but was it all in service of an enormous lie — that torture got Osama Bin Laden?

The boys swoop in on Zero Dark Thirty like modified Black Hawk helicopters with guest Spencer Ackerman, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump. Kathryn Bigelow's 2013 torture fest earned major critical plaudits for its unflinching view of the GWOT's dark side, but was it all in service of an enormous lie — that torture got Osama Bin Laden?&nbsp;

Zero Dark Thirty (3/2/23)

Journalists Evan Hill and Jack Crosbie review the cinematic canon of the Global War on Terror in search of the defining post-9/11 movie.

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