PBS' Frontline acquires Leaving Neverland director's 9/11 documentary on the "Liberty City Seven"

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Dan Reed's In the Shadow of 9/11, which was originally commissioned for Britain's Channel 4, tells the story of the so-called ‘Liberty City Seven’ — "a group of young Black men accused of assisting Al Qaeda in a plot to blow up buildings within the USA. Produced by Reed’s production outfit Amos Pictures, he considers the film to be his most complex and challenging documentary to date," per Deadline. "The Liberty City Seven were not Muslims, had no weapons, and never communicated with anyone from Al Qaeda. Skeptical juries twice delivered a mistrial and five of the seven were convicted only at the third federal trial, three years after their arrest."