When Ward showed him video evidence of prisoners being gunned down, it made watching 60 Minutes as intense as watching the raid sequence of Zero Dark Thirty.

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The "Zero Dark Thirty" title sequence says that the movie is "based on firsthand accounts of actual events, " and it opens with authentic audio recordings of people trapped in the World Trade Center towers moments before their collapse.

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There is a key sequence in which a dialogue scene happens in an apartment which overlooks ground zero.

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