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One chilly Wednesday evening in October of last year, several hundred people had just settled down for the second half of a musical in a Moscow theatre when a mysterious figure arrived on the stage in paramilitary fatigues.

One chilly Wednesday evening in October of last year, several hundred people had just settled down for the second half of a musical in a Moscow theatre when a mysterious figure arrived on the stage in paramilitary fatigues. The man, who many mistook for one of the actors, was a Chechen gunman, one of 41 to infiltrate the theatre that night. It was the start of a horrifying 57-hour siege, one that ended in controversial and ultimately tragic circumstances.

This astonishing documentary, produced and directed by Dan Reed, the award-winning maker of The Valley , tells the inside story of what really happened in those terrible days and hours in the besieged theatre. Using survivors' testimony, recordings of mobile calls and phone taps from inside the theatre, astonishing and previously unseen video of the storming of the building and its terrible aftermath, and above all the extraordinary pictures shot on camcorder by one of the gunmen, this is an intimate look at an unfolding tragedy, and the impact it had on those caught in its epicentre.

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