Movie Description
The Dark Side
(2006)Overview
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.
Featured Crew
- Director : Michael Kirk
- Producer : Michael Kirk,Jim Gilmore,Mike Wiser
- Writer : Michael Kirk
- Editor : Steve Audette
- Cast : Will Lyman,Dick Cheney,George W. Bush,Richard Clarke,Gary Schroen,John McLaughlin,Bob Graham,James Bamford,Michael Scheuer,Bob Woodward,Ron Suskind,Charles Battaglia,Steve Coll,David Kay,George Tenet,Richard Kerr,J. Cofer Black,Melvin Goodman,Frank Carlucci,James Mann,George H. W. Bush,Michael Delong,Condoleezza Rice,Colin Powell,Donald Rumsfeld,Tommy Franks,Paul Wolfowitz,Kenneth Pollack,Carl Ford,Gary Berntsen,Tyler Drumheller,Lawrence Wilkerson,Daniel Benjamin,Dana Priest,John O. Brennan,F. Michael Maloof,Vincent Cannistraro,Sam Ervin,Richard Nixon,John Yoo,Mark Garlasco,W. Patrick Lang,Paul Pillar,Dennis Hastert,Joseph Wilson,Robin B. Wright,Patrick Fitzgerald,Andrew Card,Yoweri Museveni,Scooter Libby,L. Paul Bremer
Cast
Self - Narrator
Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Self - Dir. NSC Counterterrorism 1998-'01
Self - CIA 1970-2002
Self - Dpty. Director, CIA 2000-'04
Self - Senator (D-FL), Select Cmte. on Intel. 2001-'03
Self - Author, 'The Puzzle Palace'
Self - CIA 1982-2004
Self - 'The Washington Post'
Self - Author, 'The One Percent Doctrine'
Self - Bush-Cheney 2000 Transition
Self - 'The New Yorker'
Self - Iraq Survey Group 2003-'04
Self (archive footage)
Self - Fmr. Dpty. Director CIA
Self - CIA 1974-2002
Self - Fmr. CIA officer
Self - Fmr. Secretary of Defense
Self - Author, 'Rise of the Vulcans'
Self (archive footage)
Self - Dpty. Cmdr. CENTCOM 2000-'03
Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Self - National Security Council 1999-'01
Self - Dir. State Dept. Intel. 2001-'03
Self - CIA 1982-2005
Self - Chief, CIA European Div. 2001-'05
Self - Chief of Staff, State Dept. 2002-'05
Self - National Security Council 1994 - '99
Self - 'The Washington Post'
Self - Dpty. Exec. Director, CIA 2001-'03
Self - DoD 1982-2004
Self - Fmr. CIA officer
Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Self - Legal Counsel, DOJ 2001-'03
Self - Def. Intel. Agency 1997-'03
Self - Fmr. Def. Intel. Agency officer
Self - National Intel. Officer 2000-'05
Self (archive footage)
Self - State Department 1976-'98
Self - 'The Washington Post'
Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage)
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Facts
Original TitleThe Dark Side
Status Released
Release Information
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2006-06-20
Original LanguageEnglish
Runtime 01h 24m
Homepagehttps://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/darkside/
Production CompaniesFRONTLINE,Kirk Documentary Group,WGBH Educational Foundation (US)
Genres
- Documentary
