The Hamburg Cell

Drawing on The 9/11 Commission Report, trial transcripts, correspondence and interviews, this dramatization of events leading up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attack provides an unflinching look at the roots of extremism. Focusing on the most secular and least likely hijacker -- Kiad Jarrah (Karim Salah), who became the pilot of Flight 93 -- director Antonia Bird shows how a small band of middle-class students made the transformation to mass murderers.