The Siege (1998) on Netflix
The US military seizes a suspected terrorist, and New York City becomes the target of a wave of bombings. FBI agent Anthony Hubbard and CIA operative Elise Kraft hunt the cells.
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Plot summary
The US military seizes an Islamic religious leader suspected in an earlier bombing, and New York City becomes the target of a series of attacks. Anthony Hubbard, who leads the FBI's counter-terrorism team in the city, pursues the cells behind them with Elise Kraft, a CIA operative. A bus carrying passengers and a device turns out to hold only paint, and the hijackers get away. A second bus is destroyed by a suicide bomber, and 25 people die.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Siege (1998)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Director Edward Zwick met with Arab Americans who suggested reworking the story to echo the Oklahoma City bombing, when Arabs were wrongly blamed at first, but Zwick rejected the idea.
- Screenwriter Lawrence Wright said in 2007 that Muslim and Arab protests at theaters sank the film's box office, yet he also claimed The Siege became the most-rented movie in America after the September 11 attacks.
- Guantanamo detainee Yunis Abdurrahman Shokuri said his only frame of reference for America was Hollywood movies, and that being rounded up with other Arabs at Kandahar Air Base felt just like watching The Siege, leaving him wondering if he was living inside the film.
