--- description: A look at self-radicalization in the age of ISIS title: Homegrown: The Counter-Terror Dilemma: Watch the HBO Trailer image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9ef5b47c0dcd3aed/6988797de20a876276a8f198/homegrown-documentary.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [ISIS](/tag/isis/) ## ISIS Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Exclusive: Watch the Trailer for HBO's New Jihadi Documentary  by [Karl Vick](/author/karl-vick/)  ## Karl Vick Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Editor at Large Jan 18, 2016 11:00 AM CUT  HBO  by [Karl Vick](/author/karl-vick/)  ## Karl Vick Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Editor at Large Jan 18, 2016 11:00 AM CUT A new HBO documentary takes a look at the changing face of terrorism in the U.S. almost fifteen years after 9/11. _Homegrown: The Counter-Terror Dilemma,_ which premieres on Feb. 8, is the latest HBO documentary from Gregory Barker, who also made _Manhunt: The Search for Osama bin Laden_. The new 90-minute feature examines the threat of self-radicalized individuals in the age of ISIS, the challenge of detecting plots that can spring up wherever there’s an IP address — and the danger of overstating the threat to a public saturated by warnings about terror. “You could argue there are a lot more dangerous things than terrorism: cancer, obesity, gun violence,” says Andrew Liepman, formerly no. 2 at the National Counter-Terrorism Center, in the film. “But that doesn’t capture America’s imagination as much as the threat from ISIS.” _Homegrown_ was adapted from [the forthcoming book](http://www.amazon.com/United-States-Jihad-Investigating-Terrorists-ebook/dp/B00ONUYDN8 "undefined"), “United States of Jihad: Investigating America’s Homegrown Terrorists,” by Peter Bergen, who has been the dean of terrorism journalists [since interviewing bin Laden](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqQwnqjA-6w "undefined") in 1997. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4183846/homegrown-hbo-documentary-isis/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4183846/homegrown-hbo-documentary-isis/"},"headline":"Exclusive: Watch the Trailer for HBO's New Jihadi Documentary","datePublished":"2016-01-18T11:00:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T14:12:16.709Z","description":"Homegrown: The Counter-Terror Dilemma looks at terrorism in the age of ISIS","url":"https://time.com/4183846/homegrown-hbo-documentary-isis/","keywords":["ISIS","HBO","Documentary","Terrorism"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9ef5b47c0dcd3aed/6988797de20a876276a8f198/homegrown-documentary.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Karl Vick","jobTitle":"Editor at Large","url":"https://time.com/author/karl-vick/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9ef5b47c0dcd3aed/6988797de20a876276a8f198/homegrown-documentary.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"homegrown-documentary","caption":"","creditText":"HBO","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/isis/","name":"ISIS"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4183846/homegrown-hbo-documentary-isis/","name":"Exclusive: Watch the Trailer for HBO's New Jihadi Documentary"}}]}] ```