It takes an individual with a certain touch to be able to helm a documentary about a terrorist attack still fresh in the minds and hearts of so many people worldwide. Emmy nominee and BAFTA-winning producer and director Dan Reed is one such individual, whose filmography of documentaries “Terror In Moscow” (2009), “Terror In Mumbai” (2010), and “Terror At The Mall” (2014) demonstrate his adept hand at chronicling the events and aftermaths of senseless acts of terror.
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“Three Days Of Terror: The Charlie Hebdo Attacks” will delve into the lives of police, hostages and others involved in the tragedy, with new interviews and footage providing an unflinching account of a nation’s three-day nightmare and its epilogue. Here is the official synopsis below:
On Jan. 7, 2015, two brothers belonging to Al-Qaeda in Yemen stormed the Paris offices of the satiric weekly Charlie Hebdo, killing 11 people and injuring 11 others before killing a French police officer. Amidst a massive manhunt for the killers, an additional 5 people were murdered and 11 wounded in related attacks over the next two days, including a harrowing stand-off between police and a third gunman, claiming allegiance to ISIS, at a kosher supermarket near the Porte de Vincennes in Paris.
Drawing on exclusive access to hostages, survivors, police, paramilitary forces and intelligence findings and evidence, as well as never-before-seen footage and photographs, Emmy® nominee Dan Reed (HBO’s “Terror at the Mall”) spotlights the courage and resilience of Parisian police and citizens in THREE DAYS OF TERROR: THE CHARLIE HEBDO ATTACKS.
“Three Days Of Terror: The Charlie Hebdo Attacks” debuts on HBO on September 19th at 8 PM ET/PT.