The Looming Tower (Season 1)

The Looming Tower (2018) is a Hulu miniseries you can watch online on iFILM, adapted from Lawrence Wright's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the years leading up to September 11, 2001. Eight episodes. One central question: how do you miss something this big?

FBI counterterrorism chief John O'Neill, played by Jeff Daniels, has been tracking Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda since the mid-nineties. The CIA has been doing the same — and keeps its intelligence to itself. Tahar Rahim plays an FBI agent caught between two agencies more interested in protecting their turf than in stopping an attack. The series doesn't frame 9/11 as a failure of intelligence; it frames it as a failure of institutions that chose rivalry over coordination.

Written and produced by Alex Gibney, the show draws on declassified records and firsthand accounts. Peter Sarsgaard and Michael Stuhlbarg round out a cast that makes the bureaucratic machinery feel genuinely threatening. Stream all episodes of The Looming Tower online on iFILM.