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Before the first drone strikes, before that history-altering late-night raid in Pakistan, and before the grainy photo of a lifeless body in a compound half a world away \u2014 there was fear, rage, and a country desperate for answers. And for nearly a decade, that desperation fueled a sprawling, secretive manhunt for a terrorist mastermind that forever changed the course of American history, a search evocatively captured in the new Netflix<\/a> docuseries American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was a kid when 9\/11 happened. All the way up to my early twenties. I was always led to believe that America was the good guys. We were the force of good. Cause of God and America values.Looking back at it now. Looking at our country now\u2026 God, I was so naive and dumb back then.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 YouTube commenter<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
That post, buried in the trailer\u2019s YouTube comments section, could just as easily have doubled as the tagline for Netflix\u2019s gripping new docuseries about the search for the Al-Qaeda chieftain that\u2019s currently sitting on a flawless 100% Rotten Tomatoes score as of this writing (it\u2019s also the #1 Netflix show in the US for the moment). Because this series doesn\u2019t just revisit the most infamous manhunt in modern history; it reopens the emotional wounds and ethical questions the US has been living with ever since.<\/p>\n
Everyone knows how the story ends. On a moonless night in Pakistan, a Navy SEAL team executed one of the most consequential missions in US military history. But what\u2019s often forgotten is the murky, high-stakes maze that played out in the shadows for nearly a decade in between 9\/11 and that final, fatal shot. American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden<\/em>\u00a0plunges headfirst into that darkness, guided by directors Daniel Sivan and Mor Loushy (Camp Confidential<\/em>), who make no attempt to lionize.<\/p>\n
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Instead, they zero in on the analysts, operatives, and officials who were tasked with stopping the next attack.<\/p>\n
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Mind you, this is not some sort of Netflix documentary about America, the savior<\/em>. It\u2019s about a team of people given an impossible task with barely a roadmap. Over three tightly constructed episodes,\u00a0American Manhunt<\/em>\u00a0tracks the emotional toll and moral ambiguity faced by the people chasing bin Laden. Viewers hear directly from the CIA, FBI, and Department of Defense insiders who lived through it, as well as former White House officials and journalists.<\/p>\n
There are no slow moments, just a relentless and at times gut-wrenching excavation of how intelligence agencies pieced together the puzzle that led them to a compound in Abbottabad \u2014 and how every breakthrough came at a cost.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t want to just\u00a0tell<\/em>\u00a0the story,\u201d the directors said in a Netflix promotional interview. \u201cWe wanted viewers to feel like they were in the room, forced to make the same impossible decisions.\u201d <\/body><\/html><\/p>\n
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