The Dark Side
Overview
On Sept. 11, 2001, deep inside a White House bunker, Vice President Dick Cheney was ordering U.S. fighter planes to shoot down any commercial airliner still in the air above America. At that moment, CIA Director George Tenet was meeting with his counter-terrorism team in Langley, Virginia. Both leaders acted fast, to prepare their country for a new kind of war. But soon a debate would grow over the goals of the war on terror, and the decision to go to war in Iraq. Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and others saw Iraq as an important part of a broader plan to remake the Middle East and project American power worldwide. Meanwhile Tenet, facing division in his own organization, saw non-state actors such as Al Qaeda as the highest priority. FRONTLINE’s investigation of the ensuing conflict includes more than 40 interviews, thousands of pages of documentary evidence, and a substantial photographic archive.
Release date
20/06/2006
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Will Lyman
Self - Narrator
Dick Cheney
Self (archive footage)
George W. Bush
Self (archive footage)
Richard Clarke
Self - Dir. NSC Counterterrorism 1998-'01
Gary Schroen
Self - CIA 1970-2002
John McLaughlin
Self - Dpty. Director, CIA 2000-'04
Bob Graham
Self - Senator (D-FL), Select Cmte. on Intel. 2001-'03
James Bamford
Self - Author, 'The Puzzle Palace'
Michael Scheuer
Self - CIA 1982-2004
Bob Woodward
Self - 'The Washington Post'
Ron Suskind
Self - Author, 'The One Percent Doctrine'
Charles Battaglia
Self - Bush-Cheney 2000 Transition
Steve Coll
Self - 'The New Yorker'
David Kay
Self - Iraq Survey Group 2003-'04
George Tenet
Self (archive footage)
Richard Kerr
Self - Fmr. Dpty. Director CIA
J. Cofer Black
Self - CIA 1974-2002
Melvin Goodman
Self - Fmr. CIA officer
Frank Carlucci
Self - Fmr. Secretary of Defense
James Mann
Self - Author, 'Rise of the Vulcans'
George H. W. Bush
Self (archive footage)
Michael Delong
Self - Dpty. Cmdr. CENTCOM 2000-'03
Condoleezza Rice
Self (archive footage)
Colin Powell
Self (archive footage)
Donald Rumsfeld
Self (archive footage)
Tommy Franks
Self (archive footage)
Paul Wolfowitz
Self (archive footage)
Kenneth Pollack
Self - National Security Council 1999-'01
Carl Ford
Self - Dir. State Dept. Intel. 2001-'03
Gary Berntsen
Self - CIA 1982-2005
Tyler Drumheller
Self - Chief, CIA European Div. 2001-'05
Lawrence Wilkerson
Self - Chief of Staff, State Dept. 2002-'05
Daniel Benjamin
Self - National Security Council 1994 - '99
Dana Priest
Self - 'The Washington Post'
John O. Brennan
Self - Dpty. Exec. Director, CIA 2001-'03
F. Michael Maloof
Self - DoD 1982-2004
Vincent Cannistraro
Self - Fmr. CIA officer
Sam Ervin
Self (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage)
John Yoo
Self - Legal Counsel, DOJ 2001-'03
Mark Garlasco
Self - Def. Intel. Agency 1997-'03
W. Patrick Lang
Self - Fmr. Def. Intel. Agency officer
Paul Pillar
Self - National Intel. Officer 2000-'05
Dennis Hastert
Self (archive footage)
Joseph Wilson
Self - State Department 1976-'98
Robin B. Wright
Self - 'The Washington Post'
Patrick Fitzgerald
Self (archive footage)
Andrew Card
Self (archive footage)
Yoweri Museveni
Self (archive footage)
Scooter Libby
Self (archive footage)
L. Paul Bremer
Self (archive footage)
Original Soundtrack
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Fahrenheit 9/11
Leaning Out - An Intimate Look at Twin Towers Engineer Leslie E Robertson
Camilo: The Long Road to Disobedience
Broken Token
MK-Ultra : la fin du silence
The Hornet's Nest
Retrograde
Terrorstorm
American Coup
One Flew Over Dadaab
Doctors of the Dark Side
The Cats of Mirikitani
Voices From Inside The Towers
Ghosts of Afghanistan
9/11: Cleared for Chaos
Unacknowledged
Taiwan: The Face of Free China
Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
9/11: The Longest War
9/11: Reclaiming Ground Zero