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Zero Dark Thirty is a 2012 American historical drama thriller film directed and produced by Kathryn Bigelow, and written and produced by Mark Boal. The film dramatizes the nearly decade-long international manhunt for Osama bin Laden, leader of the terrorist network Al-Qaeda, after the September 11 attacks.
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Dec 23, 2012 · Turns out it's answered in the trivia section of the IMDb entry: "0 dark 30" is a term commonly used by the military to refer to a non-specific time when it is dark outside, either very late or very early. However, the prevailing pronunciation is "oh dark thirty". Share.
- Director Kathryn Bigelow explains the significance of the title: It’s a military term for 30 minutes after midnight, and it refers also to the dark...
- It's humourous military slang for the small hours of the night, when you'd rather be asleep than on duty. In addition to zero dark thirty , another...
- Close but not exactly Simon. Being in the Military I have rarely heard "Zero Dark Thirty" it is almost always pronounced as "Oh Dark Thirty," "Oh D...
- Turns out it's answered in the trivia section of the IMDb entry : "0 dark 30" is a term commonly used by the military to refer to a non-specific ti...
Dec 20, 2022 · Zero Dark Thirty is based on the true story of the hunt for Osama bin Laden, and the movie's title has real-life significance. The Kathryn Bigelow-directed film is a thriller winding across years as the American intelligence apparatus struggles to discover the location of Osama bin Laden.
- Zachary Moser
- Staff Writer
After September 11th 2001, CIA rookie agent Maya is assigned to Pakistan to learn how to torture and seek out Osama Bin Laden. For five years, she becomes obsessed to find Osama and in 2011, the terrorist leader of Al-Qaeda is killed by the U.S. Navy SEAL Team following the lead of Maya. — Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Jan 11, 2013 · Zero Dark Thirty: Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. With Jason Clarke, Reda Kateb, Jessica Chastain, Kyle Chandler. A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011.
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- Drama, History, Thriller
- Kathryn Bigelow
- 2013-01-11
Jan 2, 2013 · The CIA agent who knew she was right. Osama bin Laden is dead, which everybody knows, and the principal facts leading up to that are also well-known. The decision to market "Zero Dark Thirty" as a thriller therefore takes a certain amount of courage, even given the fascination with this most zero and dark of deaths.
May 12, 2024 · Drama. From Academy Award-Winning director Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty is a fictionalized dramatization of the manhunt for Osama bin Laden after the September 11th attacks. Jessica Chastain stars as Maya Harris, a CIA analyst tasked with locating bin Laden in order for the US Government to assassinate him.
