The Looming Tower Releasing On Blu-Ray, and DVD September 18, 2018
The Looming Tower
The Looming Tower traces the rising threat of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda in the late 1990s and how at the time, the FBI and the CIA may have inadvertently set the path for the tragedy of 9/11. The series follows members of the I-49 Squad in New York and Alec Station in Washington D.C., the counter terrorism divisions of the FBI and CIA, respectively, as they travel the world fighting for ownership of information while seemingly working toward the same goal – trying to prevent an imminent terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
Release Date May 21, 2018 VOD, September 18, 2018 Blu-Ray and DVD
Rated TV MA
Created By Dan Futterman, Alex Gibney, Lawrence Wright
Stars Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Wrenn Schmidt, Bill Camp, Louis Cancelmi, Virginia Kull, Ella Rae Peck, Sullivan Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, Peter Sarsgaard, Annie Parisse, Jamie Neumann, Jenny Paul, Sharon Washington, Erica Cho, Alec Baldwin, Katie Flahive, Tawfeek Barhom, Jordan Lage, Kimberly S. Fairbanks
The Looming Tower traces the rising threat of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda in the late 1990s and how at the time, the FBI and the CIA may have inadvertently set the path for the tragedy of 9/11. The series follows members of the I-49 Squad in New York and Alec Station in Washington D.C., the counter terrorism divisions of the FBI and CIA, respectively, as they travel the world fighting for ownership of information while seemingly working toward the same goal – trying to prevent an imminent terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
Release Date May 21, 2018 VOD, September 18, 2018 Blu-Ray and DVD
Rated TV MA
Created By Dan Futterman, Alex Gibney, Lawrence Wright
Stars Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Wrenn Schmidt, Bill Camp, Louis Cancelmi, Virginia Kull, Ella Rae Peck, Sullivan Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, Peter Sarsgaard, Annie Parisse, Jamie Neumann, Jenny Paul, Sharon Washington, Erica Cho, Alec Baldwin, Katie Flahive, Tawfeek Barhom, Jordan Lage, Kimberly S. Fairbanks
Featured Episodes:
- Now It Begins…
- Losing My Religion
- Mistakes Were Made
- Mercury
- Y2K
- Boys at War
- The General
- A Very Special Relationship
- Tuesday
- 9/11
Blu-ray and DVD Bonus Material:
- Across Three Continents: Creating The Looming Tower (new featurette)- From New York to Morocco to Johannesburg, THE LOOMING TOWER production team went to great lengths to recreate and film the series as accurately as possible.
- Ali Soufan: In His Own Words (new featurette) - Former FBI Special Agent Ali Soufan reveals his personal American story and shares memories of his mentor John O'Neill.
- The Looming Tower: Divided We Fail (new featurette) - THE LOOMING TOWER author Lawrence Wright, Former FBI Special Agent Ali Soufan, Executive Producers Dan Futterman and Alex Gibney, and the cast explore the complicated relationship between the FBI and CIA in the years leading up to 9/11.
- The Complexities of Character (new featurette) - The cast of THE LOOMING TOWER reveal their motivations and approach to playing their complicated roles.
- Audio Commentaries - The Creators take the audience inside the creative process of creating the Pilot and Finale episodes.
