The Best Terrorism & Security Documentaries

War & Military - 100 free documentaries about terrorism & security.

Start with 9/11: One Day in America (156 min, National Geographic), then Trapped Above 9/11 Impact Zone: The Inside Story Of 73 Restaurant Workers (46 min, CNA Insider). All 100 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on terrorism & security is The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright.

• 9/11: One Day in America (156 min, National Geographic)
• Trapped Above 9/11 Impact Zone: The Inside Story Of 73 Restaurant Workers | Windows On The World (46 min, CNA Insider)
• Documenting Hate: New American Nazis (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Total Collapse | 9/11: One Day in America (44 min, National Geographic)
• First Response | 9/11: One Day in America (74 min, National Geographic)
• The South Tower | 9/11 One Day in America (44 min, National Geographic)
• Bin Laden's Hard Drive (44 min, National Geographic)
• Inside Boko Haram The World's Most Evil Terrorist Group (55 min, Real Stories)
• Remembering 9/11: 25 Years Later (132 min, National Geographic)
• Untold 9/11 Survivor Stories From Inside the Twin Towers (85 min, Real Stories)
• Confronting ISIS (113 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Explosion | Oklahoma City Bombing: One Day in America (44 min, National Geographic)
• Separated by the Cloud | 9/11: One Day in America (44 min, National Geographic)
• 9/11 The First Hours Minute By Minute (Intense Footage) (90 min, Real Stories)
• Sahel Warzone: How Local Militias Fight Jihadists in Northern Africa (42 min, ENDEVR)
• America After 9/11 (113 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Return From ISIS (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Remembering 9/11: Aftermath of a National Tragedy | 24th Anniversary Mega Episode (176 min, National Geographic)
• Why IS remains a threat (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Inside an Elite Iraqi Special Ops Unit | Hunting ISIS (22 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• The Missed Warnings That Led to 9/11 | Road to 9/11 | Full Special (86 min, HISTORY)
• Manhunt | Oklahoma City Bombing: One Day in America (44 min, National Geographic)
• 9/11 - The day that changed the world (86 min, DW Documentary)
• My daughter and the caliphate (59 min, DW Documentary)
• The Fall of Osama Bin Laden (44 min, National Geographic)
• Foreigners Fighting ISIS in Syria: The War of Others (32 min, VICE)
• Secrets of an ISIS Smartphone (47 min, ENDEVR)
• Untold Stories of 9/11 | 15 Septembers Later | Full Special (86 min, HISTORY)
• 9/11: A Minute by Minute Breakdown of What Happened (56 min, Wonder)
• Operation Neptune Spear: The CIA's Deadly Mission To Bin Laden And Take Down The Taliban (193 min, Wonder)
• Operation Neptune Spear: SEAL Team Six Eliminating Bin Laden (49 min, Wonder)
• Counter-Terrorist Units Rescue Hostages In Double Siege | Special Forces S1 EP2 (50 min, Wonder)
• Return of ISIS: Why the Terror Group Was Never Truly Destroyed (52 min, ENDEVR)
• How the Obama Administration Handled the Rise of ISIS (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Far right extremism on gaming platforms (29 min, DW Documentary)
• Unmasking Hezbollah - Drug trafficking and terror (1/3) (52 min, DW Documentary)
• The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram (83 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• A Man's Search for His Wife in the South Tower | 102 Minutes Inside The Towers (20 min, HISTORY)
• The Business Of Terrorism | Follow The Money (44 min, Real Crime)
• Supernova: The Music Festival Massacre | October 7 Attacks (51 min, ENDEVR)
• Terror in Europe: Investigating the 2015-16 Wave of Deadly Attacks (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Bombings At Two US Embassies Leave Hundreds In Critical Condition | CIA Declassified (49 min, Real Crime)
• CIA vs. Al-Qaeda: The Rise of Osama Bin Laden (145 min, Wonder)
• The Philippines' Fragile Truce With Its Muslim Separatists: Will Peace Hold? | Insight (47 min, CNA Insider)
• The Missed Chances to Stop Osama bin Laden Before 9/11 | Road to 9/11 (86 min, HISTORY)
• The Liquid Bomb Plot (72 min, Real Stories)
• 9/11: The Firefighters Story (47 min, Our History)
• Osama Bin Laden: From Billionaire's Son To The Architect Of 9/11 (63 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• Black Ops: Moscow's Night of Terror | Spetsnaz vs Chechen Terrorists (47 min, ENDEVR)
• The Business With Terrorism - Are Our Intelligence Services Financing The JIHAD ? (60 min, ENDEVR)
• How the U.S. Built a Hidden Anti-Terror Apparatus After 9/11 (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• False Flag: Inside Manufactured Terror (84 min, ENDEVR)
• When Negotiations Go Wrong: The ISIS Hostages (58 min, ENDEVR)
• What FRONTLINE Aired Two Days After 9/11 | Hunting bin Laden (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Blackhawk Down's Aftermath: Inside the Hunt for al-Qaeda (98 min, Real Crime)
• Escaping Al-Shabaab's Terror: The Untold Story of a Child Survivor (73 min, Real Stories)
• After 7/7: How Did The London Underground Respond To The Terrorist Attack? | The Tube (23 min, Spark)
• Boko Haram & Unnatural Selection (VICE on HBO: Season 4, Episode 1) (31 min, VICE)
• Searching for clues: Donations for terrorism? (41 min, DW Documentary)
• USS Cole Attack: How The CIA Tried To Destroy Al Qaeda (48 min, ENDEVR)
• The Real Story Behind The Hunt For Bin Laden (194 min, Real Crime)
• Remembering The 7/7 Bombings | The Tube (23 min, Spark)
• Fighting Boko Haram – The World's Most Evil Terrorist Group (55 min, Wonder)
• Military Forces Take Down Al-Qaeda : Task Force Black In The Triangle Of Death (48 min, Wonder)
• Operation Chavín de Huántar: The Daring Rescue Of 72 Hostages (48 min, Wonder)
• In the Shadow of 9/11 (113 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• ISIS in Afghanistan (36 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• The True Story of the Boston Bombing Investigation (62 min, Real Stories)
• The Infamous White Widow | True Crime Story (51 min, Real Stories)
• Nord-Ost Crisis: The Secret Russian Gas Attack On Terrorists Accidentally Kills 133 Hostages (49 min, Real Crime)
• Jihad Olympics: Sochi's Terror Problem (25 min, VICE)
• Female Jihadists: Asia's New Force In Terror | Undercover Asia (48 min, CNA Insider)
• The FBI & CIA Mission to Capture Osama Bin Laden (97 min, Real Crime)
• Why The CIA Missed Bin Laden 10 Times (48 min, Real Stories)
• Bali Bombing: Cracking Southeast Asia's Deadliest Terror Attack | Bali Bombing - Part 1/2 (48 min, CNA Insider)
• Destroy the Past, Control the Future | Why Extremists Erase History (55 min, ENDEVR)
• Terror! | Episode 1: The King David Hotel Bombing (43 min, Free Documentary - History)
• Operation Alpha Vs The Black Widows: Fighting Terrorists With Knockout Gas (49 min, Wonder)
• Germany’s RAF: A life in the shadow of left-wing extremist terrorism (26 min, DW Documentary)
• Inside ISIS $2 Billion Empire: The Hidden Economy of Terror (60 min, ENDEVR)

Top-Rated Books About Terrorism & Security

1. The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright (4.3/5) - View on Amazon
2. Ghost Wars by Steve Coll - View on Amazon
3. Black Flags by Joby Warrick - View on Amazon
4. The 9/11 Commission Report by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States. - View on Amazon