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Running time 157 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $40 million Box office $132.8 million Zero Dark Thirty is a 2012 American - directed by and written. Billed as 'the greatest manhunt in history,' the film dramatizes for leader after the in the United States. This search eventually leads to the discovery of and the military raid that resulted in on May 2, 2011. The film stars as Maya, a fictional, with,,,,,, and in supporting roles. It was produced by Boal, Bigelow, and, and was independently financed by Ellison's. The film in Los Angeles on December 19, 2012 and had its wide release on January 11, 2013.

Zero Dark Thirty received widespread critical acclaim and appeared on 95 critics' top ten lists of 2012. It was nominated in five categories at the, including, for Chastain,, and, and won the award for. The film also earned nominations for,, and, with Chastain winning the award for. The film's depiction of so-called ' generated controversy, with some critics describing it as pro- propaganda, as the interrogations are shown producing reliably useful and accurate information. Acting CIA director stated, 'The film creates the strong impression that the enhanced interrogation techniques.

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Were the key to finding bin Laden. That impression is false.' Other critics described it as an anti-torture exposure of interrogation practices. Congressman charged that the filmmakers were given improper access to classified materials, which they denied.

An unreleased draft IG report published by the, in June 2013, stated that former CIA Director discussed during an awards ceremony for the team that carried out the raid on the bin Laden compound. Unbeknownst to Panetta, screenwriter Mark Boal was among the 1,300 present during the ceremony. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Plot [ ] Maya is a U.S.

Analyst, recruited 'out of high school' around 1999, tasked with finding the leader. In 2003 she is stationed at the. She and fellow officer Dan, attend the interrogations of, a detainee with suspected links to several of the 2001, who is subjected to.

Ammar provides unreliable information on a suspected attack in, but does reveal to Maya the previously unknown name of the personal courier for bin Laden,. Greek Tv Programs. Other detainee intelligence connects courier traffic by Abu Ahmed between and bin Laden. In 2005, Faraj denies knowing about a courier named Abu Ahmed; she interprets this as an attempt by Faraj to conceal the importance of Abu Ahmed.

In 2009 during the, Maya's fellow officer and friend Jessica is killed. On the same day a case manager that likes the Abu Ahmed lead, shares with her an interrogation with a Jordanian detainee claiming to have personally buried Abu Ahmed in 2001. Maya learns what the CIA was told five years earlier, that Morocco caught Ibrihim Sayeed traveling under the name of Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti. Realizing her lead may be alive, Maya contacts Dan, now a senior officer at the. She speculates that the CIA's photograph of 'Abu Ahmed' is that of his brother, Habeeb, who was killed in Afghanistan. Maya says that their beards and native clothes make all of the brothers look alike.

This would explain Ammar's account of Abu Ahmed's 'death' in 2001. Maya wants the telephone number of Ibrihim Sayeed's mother, and it comes from a Kuwaiti prince for the price of a. CIA operatives use electronic methods to pinpoint a caller in a vehicle who persistently exhibits behaviors that delay confirmation of his identity.

The vehicle is physically tracked to a large urban compound in, Pakistan, near the. Gunmen attack Maya while she is in her vehicle; the action indicates to the agency that her cover is blown, so she is recalled to Washington, D.C. When the compound is put under surveillance, the habits and culture of the inhabitants are analyzed but no conclusive photographic identification of bin Laden is obtained.

The President's tasks the CIA with creating a plan to capture or kill bin Laden. Two from are flown by the Army's to enter Pakistan, insert members of and the CIA's and raid the compound.

Before briefing President, the CIA Director holds a meeting of his senior officers, who assess that bin Laden being there is a chance of 60–80%, rather than another high-value target. Maya, also in attendance, uses the 'habits' intelligence to shore-up her conclusion to 100% that bin Laden is there. The raid is approved and is. One of the helicopters crash, the SEALs gain entry and kill a number of people within the compound—among them a man in the building who is believed to be bin Laden.