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Zero Dark Thirty

2012 · Thriller · Kathryn Bigelow · 2h 37m

A CIA analyst spends a decade of her working life on one question: where bin Laden is. Procedural and cold, years of cables and interrogations and meetings, and then one long night raid.

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