The Looming Tower

Sky Atlantic HD

10:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Saturday 26 September

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This tense drama tracing the rising threat of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida in the late 1990s and how a rivalry between the FBI and CIA developed during the era continues. December 1999 finds both public bodies on high alert as threats surrounding a coordinated terrorist attack times for the new millennium abound. O'Neill and Soufan raid an al-Qaeda cell in New York City, and the CIA continues to hide vital information from the FBI while tracking suspicious individuals entering the US. Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Virginia Kull and Michael Stuhlbarg star