The Film Zero Dark Thirty

“Terrorism is the force or violence against persons or property in violation of the criminal laws of the United States for purposes of intimidation, coercion, or ransom” (U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency, 2009, para. 1). The movie Zero Dark Thirty starts off with a blank dark and distorted screen with an array of 911 calls and mass hysteria from the nine-eleven attacks that allowed viewers to picture a graphic view of what was occurring. It is believed that bin Laden gave the approval for the September 11, 2001 attacks sometime in the same year. A man known as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was in charge of the operational planning for the nine-eleven attacks. Mohammed was born in Kuwait and received his college education in the United States.