The siege [videorecording] / Twentieth Century Fox presents a Lynda Obst production, an Edward Zwick film ; produced by Lynda Obst, Edward Zwick ; story by Lawrence Wright ; screenplay by Lawrence Wright and Menno Meyjes & Edward Zwick ; directed by Edward Zwick.
Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture in 1998. Special features: Audio commentary by producer/director Edward Zwick and executive producer Peter Schindler; "The siege: taking New York" featurette; "Martial law: freedom is history" featurette; international TV special (1998); The making of The siege; two theatrical trailers. Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Bruce Willis, Tony Shalhoub, Sami Bouajila, David Proval.
Summary:
Islamic militants unleash terrorism by blowing up in a bus in Brooklyn. FBI Terrorism Task Force chief Anthony Hubbard investigates. Agents track a suspect through Brooklyn, while Hub teams with Middle East expert and NSA operative Elise Kraft. After the FBI wipes out three Arabs in a Brooklyn apartment, an explosion in a Broadway theater is followed by attacks on a school and the FBI headquarters. When the President declares martial law, neo-fascist Army General William Devereaux swings into action, deploying tanks through Brooklyn, capturing Arab-American males, and herding them into an open-air stadium detention camp. With the Army out of control, the power-crazed Devereaux devises plans for totrure and murder, turning his attention to Hub and Elise.
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