The Anthrax Attacks: In the Shadow of 9/11

Directed by Dan Kraus, The Anthrax Attacks: In the Shadow of 9/11 (2022) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Weeks after the September 11 attacks, envelopes loaded with anthrax spores moved through the US postal system — to newsrooms, to Senate offices. Five people died. Seventeen more were infected.

The FBI launched what became codenamed Amerithrax, one of the longest domestic-terror investigations in the bureau's history. Seven years of chasing suspects eventually narrowed to a government microbiologist at Fort Detrick, Maryland. Clark Gregg and Peri Gilpin narrate the dramatic reconstructions; archival footage brings in Rudy Giuliani and George W. Bush. Kraus builds a tight procedural rhythm without letting the human toll of those weeks disappear behind the case file. The fall of 2001 had two chapters. This film makes you feel both. Stream The Anthrax Attacks on iFILM.