Continued more than 2.7 million people in the United States the first film recounts the details of the operation that led to the liquidation of Osama bin Laden, the al Qaeda leader, also announced National Geographic station that aired two days before the U.S. presidential election.


The station, which broadcasts cable in a statement that the film was in the program that has won the highest number of viewers on the channel this year, and it ranked sixth on the list of most watched programs in history.

The announcement last month that the film "elite team VI (Seal Team Six)": the attack on Osama bin Laden "will be broadcast for the first time two days before the presidential election, raised several questions.

The reason for the uproar that the distributor and one of the producers of the film movement which has a duration of 90 minutes is Harvey Weinstein personal Hollywood is known as a leading fundraisers for President Barack Obama's campaign.

But director John Stockwell is denied at the time said that his propaganda film for Obama to influence voters by less than 48 hours of the polling stations opened.

The killing of Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011 commando shot of elite U.S. troops in Abbottabad in Pakistan.

It is expected to start another film about this process is directed by Katherine Bigilo in January at the cinema.