The Dark Side
"We also have to work the dark side...we've got to spend time in the shadows..."
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.
- Director
- Michael Kirk
- Writer
- Michael Kirk
- Original Music Composer
- John E. Low
Questions
- Is The Dark Side free to watch?
- Not on Filmghar: we only play films and episodes that are in the public domain or that the owner has made free. We'll show it here as soon as it is free.
- Where can I watch The Dark Side in Pakistan?
- We couldn't find a streaming service carrying The Dark Side in Pakistan right now.
- Who is in the cast of The Dark Side?
- The Dark Side stars Will Lyman, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Richard Clarke.
- What kind of film is The Dark Side?
- The Dark Side (2006) is a documentary film.
