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Sep 10, 2021 · Detainee 001. Documentary. 88 minutes ‧ NR ‧ 2021. Matt Fagerholm. September 10, 2021. 5 min read. In these dispiriting days as we continue to grapple with the magnitude of our failure in Afghanistan, where nearly two decades of war has resulted in the country merely moving back to square one, Greg Barker ’s latest documentary ...
Sep 10, 2021 · Directed by Greg Barker, the riveting new Showtime documentary Detainee 001 revisits the story of once-infamous “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh, a young man from California who had...
The complex legal story of John Walker Lindh, a young American who fell under the spell of the Taliban in Afghanistan. The archival footage alone makes the film worth seeing, yet the attempts to ...
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In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the US and its allies invaded Afghanistan with the mission of identifying, infiltrating and eliminating terrorist networks. Public attention riveted on the capture of John Walker Lindh, a radical mujahideen fighter who became known as "the American Taliban."
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Against the backdrop of the U.S war in Afghanistan ending and the country's subsequent takeover by the Taliban, director Greg Barker's documentary "Detainee 001," premiering on Showtime, takes the viewer back to where it all started. He focuses on John Walker Lindh, who converted to Islam as a teenager and went to Yemen to learn Arabic.
Detainee 001 is a new documentary by Greg Barker and focuses on John Walker Lindh, otherwise known as The American Taliban. The Afghan Northern Alliance forces captured Walker Lindh after his unit surrendered at Kunduz.
