Plot Synopsis

From director Brian Knappenberger, TURNING POINT: 9/11 AND THE WAR ON TERROR is a five-part documentary series that chronicles personal stories of how the catastrophic events of 9/11 changed the course of the nation. The September 11, 2001 attacks changed the world in ways that have taken decades to understand. Twenty years later, following the longest war in American history and Afghanistan once again in Taliban control, this series answers the questions: Who attacked the U.S. and why? What breakdowns in intelligence allowed it to happen? How did decisions at the highest levels of three administrations in the war on terror bring us to this moment? The series features a wide range of interviewees including officials from multiple U.S. presidential administrations, former CIA members, and U.S. military veterans as well as Afghanistan National Army soldiers, Taliban commanders, members of the Afghan government, Afghan warlords, and Afghan civilians -- many who had never spoken on camera before. It also spotlights the voices of survivors of the attacks themselves. All five episodes of the documentary series dropped on Wednesday, September 1, 2021 on Netflix.