The Dark Side

The Dark Side (2006)

"We also have to work the dark side...we've got to spend time in the shadows..."

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2006-06-20
  • User Rating: 10/10 from 1 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 24min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: FRONTLINE
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Michael Kirk
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Summary

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.

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  • Will Lyman

    as Self - Narrator

  • Dick Cheney

    as Self (archive footage)

  • George W. Bush

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Richard Clarke

    as Self - Dir. NSC Counterterrorism 1998-'01

  • Gary Schroen

    as Self - CIA 1970-2002

  • John McLaughlin

    as Self - Dpty. Director, CIA 2000-'04

  • Bob Graham

    as Self - Senator (D-FL), Select Cmte. on Intel. 2001-'03

  • James Bamford

    as Self - Author, 'The Puzzle Palace'

  • Michael Scheuer

    as Self - CIA 1982-2004

  • Bob Woodward

    as Self - 'The Washington Post'

  • Ron Suskind

    as Self - Author, 'The One Percent Doctrine'

  • Charles Battaglia

    as Self - Bush-Cheney 2000 Transition

  • Steve Coll

    as Self - 'The New Yorker'

  • David Kay

    as Self - Iraq Survey Group 2003-'04

  • George Tenet

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Richard Kerr

    as Self - Fmr. Dpty. Director CIA

  • J. Cofer Black

    as Self - CIA 1974-2002

  • Melvin Goodman

    as Self - Fmr. CIA officer

  • Frank Carlucci

    as Self - Fmr. Secretary of Defense

  • James Mann

    as Self - Author, 'Rise of the Vulcans'

  • George H. W. Bush

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Michael Delong

    as Self - Dpty. Cmdr. CENTCOM 2000-'03

  • Condoleezza Rice

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Colin Powell

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Donald Rumsfeld

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Tommy Franks

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Paul Wolfowitz

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Kenneth Pollack

    as Self - National Security Council 1999-'01

  • Carl Ford

    as Self - Dir. State Dept. Intel. 2001-'03

  • Gary Berntsen

    as Self - CIA 1982-2005

  • Tyler Drumheller

    as Self - Chief, CIA European Div. 2001-'05

  • Lawrence Wilkerson

    as Self - Chief of Staff, State Dept. 2002-'05

  • Daniel Benjamin

    as Self - National Security Council 1994 - '99

  • Dana Priest

    as Self - 'The Washington Post'

  • John O. Brennan

    as Self - Dpty. Exec. Director, CIA 2001-'03

  • F. Michael Maloof

    as Self - DoD 1982-2004

  • Vincent Cannistraro

    as Self - Fmr. CIA officer

  • Sam Ervin

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Richard Nixon

    as Self (archive footage)

  • John Yoo

    as Self - Legal Counsel, DOJ 2001-'03

  • Mark Garlasco

    as Self - Def. Intel. Agency 1997-'03

  • W. Patrick Lang

    as Self - Fmr. Def. Intel. Agency officer

  • Paul Pillar

    as Self - National Intel. Officer 2000-'05

  • Dennis Hastert

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Joseph Wilson

    as Self - State Department 1976-'98

  • Robin B. Wright

    as Self - 'The Washington Post'

  • Patrick Fitzgerald

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Andrew Card

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Yoweri Museveni

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Scooter Libby

    as Self (archive footage)

  • L. Paul Bremer

    as Self (archive footage)
Directing Michael Kirk Director
Writing Michael Kirk Writer
Production Michael Kirk Producer
Production Jim Gilmore Producer
Editing Steve Audette Editor
Production Mike Wiser Producer
Camera Ben McCoy Director of Photography
Sound Steve Lederer Sound
Production Colette Neirouz Hanna Production Assistant
Sound John E. Low Original Music Composer
Camera Jeff Kleinman Additional Photography
Sound Keith McManus Sound Assistant
Editing Mandy Minichello Assistant Editor
Sound Jim Sullivan Sound Mixer
Crew Chris Fournelle Post Production Supervisor
Production Louis Wiley Jr. Executive Producer
Production David Fanning Executive Producer
Sound Martin Brody Music
Sound Mason Daring Music

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