Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

recommended

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

The Secret History of 9/11 (2006) *** 1/2 (out of 4)This documentary takes a look at the build up to 9/11 and various things that happened, which allowed the terrorists into this country and able to board a plane and do the destruction that they did. This documentary starts off with the World Trade Center bombing from 1993 and then covers the next eight years leading up to 9/11.There have been countless documentaries about 9/11 and this one here is certainly one of the better ones and especially since it's main focus are on the years leading up to it. It's really amazing to look back and see how much was missed going all the way back to the Clinton administration including their chance at killing Bin Laden but rejecting it fearing that innocent people might be killed in the process.There are interviews with several people connected to the events of that day including a couple fighter pilots as well as men connected to the government. Their stories are certainly highly interesting and even frustrating when you hear them talk about the various things that were done incorrectly that day and how lives probably could have been saved.

Story of 9/11 plot goes back to Ramzi Yousef's 1993 bombing of the WTC, the bojinka plot in the Phillipines and the bombing of a flight to japan which was the pattern for 9/11, and attempts to get bin Laden after he is identified as a threat, but thwarted by politics. The 9/11 hijackers are tracked, then lost by US intelligence as they enter the US into San Diego and into Florida, Fall church Virgnia and Florida.If there is any doubt from the "truth" movement of the amount of evidence that Islamist terrorists carried out 9/11 and were working on it throughout the 1990s, and the US fumbled multiple times to try to stop them, you need to see this. The story is about the same as was dramatized on "path to 9/11" which also blames Clinton and Bush for failures. A copy is posted on google video. The story does not go into reports from "the third terrorist" that Yousef apparently aided the Oklahoma city bombers where Nichols visited the same location in the Phillipines were Al Queda was operating and may have recruited Nichols for the operation, which was aborted after their apartment was searched and his accomplice was arrested