Terrorism

Frontline: The Man Who Knew is a PBS documentary about FBI counterterrorism agent John P. O'Neill, who warned of an imminent al-Qaeda attack before dying in the Twin Towers on 9/11.

Netflix documentary series about the 7/7 London bombings of 7 July 2005, in which four suicide bombers killed 52 people — and the three-week manhunt that followed.

The 2015 Paris Attacks are a coordinated ISIS terrorist operation in which nine jihadists killed 130 people across six sites in Paris and Saint-Denis on November 13, 2015.

Lockerbie is a 2023 Sky documentary series about the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on 21 December 1988 — Britain's deadliest terror attack.

Unabomber: In His Own Words is a Netflix documentary series about Ted Kaczynski, the domestic terrorist who mailed bombs across the US from 1978 to 1995, killing 3 and injuring 23.

Documentary on the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, which killed 168 people. Streaming on Netflix.

The Lockerbie bombing destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland on December 21, 1988, killing all 259 aboard and 11 on the ground in history's deadliest act of aviation terrorism against the U.S.

The 7/7 London bombings were a coordinated Islamist suicide bombing attack on London's transport network on 7 July 2005, carried out by four British citizens who killed 52 civilians.

The Pulse nightclub shooting was a mass shooting and terrorist attack at an LGBTQ nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on June 12, 2016, in which gunman Omar Mateen killed 49 people.

The Boston Marathon bombing was a terrorist attack on April 15, 2013, when brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev detonated two pressure-cooker bombs near the finish line, killing three and injuring hundreds.

The Hunt for Osama bin Laden is the decade-long U.S. manhunt that ended on May 2, 2011, when Navy SEALs killed the al-Qaeda founder in a raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Uli Edel's 2008 film about the Red Army Faction became an instant cultural sensation and still shapes how Europeans remember the terrorist group.

Between 1992 and 1993, a single man terrorized all of Germany with bomb threats against major department stores. Arno Funke, operating under the alias 'Dagobert,' evaded capture for months before finally being arrested—and now features in a new Amazon series starring Friedrich Mücke.

Detlev Karsten Rohwedder, chairman of the Treuhand agency, was killed by RAF terrorists at his home in Düsseldorf on 1 April 1991. The assassination was the most high-profile terrorist attack in Germany in decades. His murder was never fully solved.

Between 2000 and 2007, the far-right terror group National Socialist Underground killed nine migrants and one police officer across Germany. Police suspected the victims' families instead of recognizing the obvious racist motive.

A German journalist has documented how the country's domestic intelligence service knew about the right-wing extremists behind the NSU terror murders since 1998 but chose silence. A new book based on 1,000 classified pages reveals systematic protection of agents at the expense of victims.

Stefan Aust's 'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' became the standard work on the Red Army Faction. With over 500,000 copies sold and an Oscar-nominated film adaptation, the book continues to shape our understanding of Germany's darkest political era.

Nils Minkmar's book documents five years of trial proceedings against NSU terrorists and raises uncomfortable questions about systematic failures by German police and intelligence services.

On December 7, 2022, German police carried out one of the country's largest coordinated raid operations in recent memory, arresting 25 people suspected of plotting a violent coup against the German state under the name Patriotische Union.

On June 25, 2021, Somali-born Abdirahman Muse killed three people and wounded five others in a knife attack in Würzburg, Germany. The 24-year-old attacker, motivated by Islamist extremism and struggling with severe mental illness, was overpowered by bystanders and arrested. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole in December 2022.