Anthrax Attacks, The: In the Shadow of 9/11

[Available Sept. 8 on Netflix at www.Netflix.com/TheAnthraxAttacks.] Dan Krauss' informative, intriguing, insightful, disjointed, multilayered, 102-minute documentary that chronicles the deadly, biological anthrax attacks, which killed five people and injured more than seventeen, that began in October 2001 after 9/11 by using the U.S. Postal Service and consists of archival film footage, scripted reenactments based on emails, interview transcripts, letters, and notes during the intense, inconclusive FBI investigation of suspected perpetrator scientist, researcher, and leading anthrax expert Dr. Bruce Edwards Ivins (Clark Gregg) by FBI agents Moore (Brigitte Kali Canales), Shaw (Tongayi Chirisa), Hayward (Derek Phillips), Braxton (John Redlinger), and Vince Lilsi (Chris Johnson), and candid interview snippets by Ivins' wife Diane, Postmaster General John Potter, attorney Tom Connolly, FBI agent Brad Garrett, newscaster Casey Chamberlain, Senator Tom Daschle, and postal workers Deana Briscoe, Terrell Worrell, and Thomas Morris.
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