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The Looming Tower

The Looming Tower

2018
Drama, History
TV Mini-Series
Tracing the rising threat of Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, it takes a controversial look at how the rivalry between the CIA and FBI inadvertently might have set the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the war in Iraq. (imdb)
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Created by:

Dan Futterman
Dan-Futterman
18 total credits
Credits include: Capote, The Birdcage, Foxcatcher, Enough and A Mighty Heart
,
Alex Gibney
Alex-Gibney
67 total credits
Credits include: Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Taxi to the Dark Side
,
Lawrence Wright
Lawrence-Wright
10 total credits
Credits include: The Siege, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief and The Looming Tower

Directed by:

Dan Futterman
Dan-Futterman
18 total credits
Credits include: Capote, The Birdcage, Foxcatcher, Enough and A Mighty Heart
,
Alex Gibney
Alex-Gibney
67 total credits
Credits include: Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Taxi to the Dark Side
,
John Dahl
John-Dahl
55 total credits
Credits include: Rounders, Dexter, Joy Ride, The Last Seduction and Red Rock West
,
Lawrence Wright
Lawrence-Wright
10 total credits
Credits include: The Siege, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief and The Looming Tower

Writers:

Dan Futterman
Dan-Futterman
18 total credits
Credits include: Capote, The Birdcage, Foxcatcher, Enough and A Mighty Heart
,
Alex Gibney
Alex-Gibney
67 total credits
Credits include: Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Taxi to the Dark Side
,
Lawrence Wright
Lawrence-Wright
10 total credits
Credits include: The Siege, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief and The Looming Tower
,
Shannon Houston
Shannon-Houston
4 total credits
Credits include: Homecoming, Lovecraft Country, The Looming Tower and Sundown

Starring:

Alec Baldwin
Alec-Baldwin
129 total credits
Alexander Rae "Alec" Baldwin III first gained recognition through television for his work in the soap opera Knots Landing for his role as Joshua Rush. He was a cast member for two seasons (Seasons 6 & 7) before his character was killed off. The series aired on CBS from 1979 to 1993. He has since played both leading and supporting roles in films such as Beetlejuice (1988), The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Aviator (2004) and The Departed (2006)... (wikipedia)
,
Jeff Daniels
Jeff-Daniels
92 total credits
Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels is an American actor, musician and playwright. He has had a thriving film career, from his debut in 1981 in Ragtime, through State of Play in 2009. For his film work, he has received three Golden Globe Award nominations, including as Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical for Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) (hence the name of his theatre company)... (Wikpedia)
,
Peter Sarsgaard
Peter-Sarsgaard
61 total credits
John Peter Sarsgaard is an American film and stage actor. He landed his first feature role in the movie Dead Man Walking in 1995. He then appeared in the 1998 independent films Another Day in Paradise and Desert Blue. That same year, Sarsgaard received a substantial role in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), playing Raoul, the son of Athos. Sarsgaard later achieved critical recognition when he was cast in Boys Don't Cry (1999) as John Lotter...(Wikipedia)
,
Annie Parisse
Annie-Parisse
18 total credits
Credits include: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Monster-in-Law, Prime, The Following and And So It Goes
,
Jennifer Ehle
Jennifer-Ehle
52 total credits
Credits include: The King's Speech, Contagion, Zero Dark Thirty, The Adjustment Bureau and The Ides of March
,
Yul Vazquez
Yul-Vazquez
40 total credits
Credits include: War of the Worlds, Captain Phillips, The A-Team, Russian Doll and Runner Runner
,
Tahar Rahim
Tahar-Rahim
30 total credits
Credits include: A Prophet, The Past, Inside, Napoleon and Madame Web
,
Michael Stuhlbarg
Michael-Stuhlbarg
40 total credits
Credits include: Arrival, Hugo, Doctor Strange, A Serious Man and Seven Psychopaths
,
Bill Camp
Bill-Camp
50 total credits
Credits include: Joker, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Lawless, The Queen's Gambit and Jason Bourne
,
Wrenn Schmidt
Wrenn-Schmidt
15 total credits
Credits include: Nope, Our Idiot Brother, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, For All Mankind and The Looming Tower
,
Virginia Kull
Virginia-Kull
11 total credits
Credits include: The Empty Man, Sneaky Pete, The Looming Tower, Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Nancy
,
Sullivan Jones
Sullivan-Jones
9 total credits
Credits include: The Looming Tower, False Positive, Halston, Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World and The Surrogate

Genres:

Drama, History

Country:

USA

Language:

English

The Looming Tower

2018
Drama, History
TV Mini-Series
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Ratings & Reviews

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Average Percentile: 57.8%
13 Jul 2018
60
21st
TV: Strong acting, somewhat questionable framing, plotting and 'truthiness'. Overall mid-way through the season I became a little too incredulous at some of the tropey short-cutting (it's London so cue the rain clouds and those red phone boxes etc) and curious character development. Show offers kind of a scattergun treatment of many issues rather than focusing on less of them done better. My biggest problem is that I can't really trust the accuracy of anything in it, seems a bit over-wrought.
23 Apr 2023
70
66th
The disparity in director quality per episode is too big but the better episodes are very good, handling the subject with self-control, not unlike Le (unrivalled in the genre) Bureau. Especially Camp brings sophistication to this procedural but Daniels and Rahim are also great. This (composited) true story deserves a better portrayal of the governmental antagonists (i.e CIA) that causes instutional failure and immense loss of lives; Sarsgaard and Wrenn Schmidt are poor and out-of-place cultlike
10 Nov 2022
70
48th
Adam Curtis did it better IYKWIM
23 Jun 2020
45
16th
Well acted, good story, but it would’ve been much better as a two hour movie. There seems to be a lot of series that heavily stretch the plot in this way, with Homecoming, The Rain, and Designated Survivor being similar cases.
09 Apr 2019
96
93rd
Gripping mini-series paints a provocative (and credible) portrait of how the 'He-Man'-ing of the CIA and FBI frustratingly allowed the clues leading to 9/11 to be ignored. Brilliant performances sell the drama, with Daniels extraordinary in arguably the performance of his career, though Stuhlbarg, Camp, Schmidt, Sarsgaard and a sinister Baldwin are all equally fine. Handles the climax with a welcome taste and restraint, though the irony in the coda provides a wrenching little kick of sadness.
25 Sep 2018
2
46th
Forgettable baddies/goodies, CIA/FBI political drama stuff. Homework clearly done the focus on a small number of characters with big, and often familiar personalities made the truthiness grate.
14 Apr 2018
70
57th
mizansen ve kurguya bakılırsa fazla alelacele yapılmış bir iş gibi duruyor. ama yine de suç/polisiye/espiyonaj/siyaset gibi janr meczuplarına ilaç gibi gelir.
14 Mar 2018
83
59th
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The Looming Tower - Season 1
Season 1 - Tracing the rising threat of Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, it takes a controversial look at how the rivalry between the CIA and FBI inadvertently might have set the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the war in Iraq. (imdb)

Cast & Info

Created by:

Dan Futterman
Dan-Futterman
18 total credits
Credits include: Capote, The Birdcage, Foxcatcher, Enough and A Mighty Heart
,
Alex Gibney
Alex-Gibney
67 total credits
Credits include: Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Taxi to the Dark Side
,
Lawrence Wright
Lawrence-Wright
10 total credits
Credits include: The Siege, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief and The Looming Tower

Directed by:

Dan Futterman
Dan-Futterman
18 total credits
Credits include: Capote, The Birdcage, Foxcatcher, Enough and A Mighty Heart
,
Alex Gibney
Alex-Gibney
67 total credits
Credits include: Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Taxi to the Dark Side
,
John Dahl
John-Dahl
55 total credits
Credits include: Rounders, Dexter, Joy Ride, The Last Seduction and Red Rock West
,
Lawrence Wright
Lawrence-Wright
10 total credits
Credits include: The Siege, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief and The Looming Tower

Writers:

Dan Futterman
Dan-Futterman
18 total credits
Credits include: Capote, The Birdcage, Foxcatcher, Enough and A Mighty Heart
,
Alex Gibney
Alex-Gibney
67 total credits
Credits include: Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Taxi to the Dark Side
,
Lawrence Wright
Lawrence-Wright
10 total credits
Credits include: The Siege, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief and The Looming Tower
,
Shannon Houston
Shannon-Houston
4 total credits
Credits include: Homecoming, Lovecraft Country, The Looming Tower and Sundown

Starring:

Alec Baldwin
Alec-Baldwin
129 total credits
Alexander Rae "Alec" Baldwin III first gained recognition through television for his work in the soap opera Knots Landing for his role as Joshua Rush. He was a cast member for two seasons (Seasons 6 & 7) before his character was killed off. The series aired on CBS from 1979 to 1993. He has since played both leading and supporting roles in films such as Beetlejuice (1988), The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Aviator (2004) and The Departed (2006)... (wikipedia)
,
Jeff Daniels
Jeff-Daniels
92 total credits
Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels is an American actor, musician and playwright. He has had a thriving film career, from his debut in 1981 in Ragtime, through State of Play in 2009. For his film work, he has received three Golden Globe Award nominations, including as Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical for Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) (hence the name of his theatre company)... (Wikpedia)
,
Peter Sarsgaard
Peter-Sarsgaard
61 total credits
John Peter Sarsgaard is an American film and stage actor. He landed his first feature role in the movie Dead Man Walking in 1995. He then appeared in the 1998 independent films Another Day in Paradise and Desert Blue. That same year, Sarsgaard received a substantial role in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), playing Raoul, the son of Athos. Sarsgaard later achieved critical recognition when he was cast in Boys Don't Cry (1999) as John Lotter...(Wikipedia)
,
Annie Parisse
Annie-Parisse
18 total credits
Credits include: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Monster-in-Law, Prime, The Following and And So It Goes
,
Jennifer Ehle
Jennifer-Ehle
52 total credits
Credits include: The King's Speech, Contagion, Zero Dark Thirty, The Adjustment Bureau and The Ides of March
,
Yul Vazquez
Yul-Vazquez
40 total credits
Credits include: War of the Worlds, Captain Phillips, The A-Team, Russian Doll and Runner Runner
,
Tahar Rahim
Tahar-Rahim
30 total credits
Credits include: A Prophet, The Past, Inside, Napoleon and Madame Web
,
Michael Stuhlbarg
Michael-Stuhlbarg
40 total credits
Credits include: Arrival, Hugo, Doctor Strange, A Serious Man and Seven Psychopaths
,
Bill Camp
Bill-Camp
50 total credits
Credits include: Joker, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Lawless, The Queen's Gambit and Jason Bourne
,
Wrenn Schmidt
Wrenn-Schmidt
15 total credits
Credits include: Nope, Our Idiot Brother, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, For All Mankind and The Looming Tower
,
Virginia Kull
Virginia-Kull
11 total credits
Credits include: The Empty Man, Sneaky Pete, The Looming Tower, Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Nancy
,
Sullivan Jones
Sullivan-Jones
9 total credits
Credits include: The Looming Tower, False Positive, Halston, Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World and The Surrogate

Genres:

Drama, History

Country:

USA

Language:

English
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