23-04-2025
Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror: Trailer, certificate and where to watch
Documentary examining the 1995 bombing of a US federal building
Year: 2025
Certificate: 15
At 9.02am on 19 April 1995, a truck bomb exploded immediately outside the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The damage it caused was immense, destroying one-third of the building, injuring 684 people and leaving killing 167 dead. Carried out by anti-government extremists from within America itself, it remains the most deadly act of domestic terrorism in US history.
This documentary from filmmaker Greg Tillman presents a moment-by-moment reconstruction of the chaos that followed the attack, while also digging into the investigation that eventually tracked down the mastermind behind it, Gulf War veteran Timothy McVeigh. It's a fascinating, if frequently harrowing, film that digs deep into the FBI's efforts to find the perpetrators, the strokes of luck that helped them succeed and the twisted personal beliefs that drove McVeigh's actions. (82 minutes)
