Updated On: 16 May, 2025 03:37 PM IST | Mumbai | Johnson Thomas
This documentary recounts the decade-long global search while weaving in the 9/11 attacks, al-Qaeda’s operations, and the war in Afghanistan. It’s a largely linear, tightly edited narrative

Still from American Hunt: Osama Bin Laden
Netflix’s latest edition of the true crime anthology series American Manhunt focuses on Osama bin Laden. The new three-part series follows Osama bin Laden, one of the world’s most dreaded criminals who evaded capture for nearly a decade after planning the horrific attacks on New York City on September 11, 2001.
September 11, 2001- when two 747s crashed into the World Trade Center, two other planes crashed into the Pentagon in Washington and a field near Pennsylvania, and 2,977 innocent people lost their lives. A global manhunt was launched thereafter to identify the organization behind the horrific attacks, and once it was established that Al-Qaeda terrorists led by Osama, based in Afghanistan, were involved, the target was set.