Directed by Emmy®-winning filmmaker Dan Reed (Stopping the Steal, Leaving Neverland), Three Days of Terror is a searing account of the horrific events that began on 7th January 2015, when two brothers – members of Islamic group Al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen – stormed into the Paris offices of the satiric weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, killing 11 people and injuring 11 others before also killing a French police officer outside.
As a massive manhunt for the elusive killers was mounted, an additional five people were murdered and 11 wounded in related attacks in the Ile-de-France region over the next two days, including a harrowing stand-off between police and a gunman at a kosher supermarket near the Porte de Vincennes.
Using carefully edited footage from security cameras and cellphones (much of it never before seen), photos taken over the three days, and testimony from survivors and rescuers who are depicted in the images, Three Days of Terror recalls the horror of the attacks, as well as the courage and resilience of police and Parisian citizens in the face of.
"Impressively researched documentary."
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
"Pick of the day."
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
"An unusually grounded, deeply disturbing, movingly human response to what had transpired."
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
"Reed’s specialism is getting to the human heart of terrorist attacks by combining archive footage and eyewitness testimony to convey the true horror of such events."
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
"There tends to be a rare and heart-stabbing immediacy to the documentaries of director Dan Reed. Three Days of Terror: the Charlie Hebdo Attacks was no exception."
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
"Director Dan Reed keeps things measured and cool, steering clear of redundant dramatic effects. Indeed, one feels that he possesses
worse pictures than he shows, that he cuts away when appropriate."
THE LA TIMES
"Dispensing with historical context and scholarly opinion, it is a kind of humanistic action film, concerned almost entirely with what happened and the experiences of the people it happened to."
THE LA TIMES
"A swift, sleek documentary."
THE LA TIMES
"Dan Reed creates a clear narrative, often using footage never seen before, while building a mosaic of eye-witness accounts that enable the viewer to see, feel and smell the unimaginable. This film describes what happened from the moment the two gunmen entered the building... to the final shoot-out."
THE TIMES
"Pick of the day."
THE TIMES
"What sticks with you are the interviews, and the bewilderment of the people who survived."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
"Highly refined."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
"There are interviews with virtually everyone: survivors; police; special forces; negotiators; snipers; the shelf-stacker who escaped from the supermarket and helped the police with its layout; and people randomly caught up."
THE GUARDIAN
"You might think you knew everything there was to know about the massacre... But you won’t have seen it like this, the timeline filled in meticulously, and in such extraordinary detail."
THE GUARDIAN
"Comprehensive."
THE GUARDIAN