Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow's controversial new movie about the hunt for terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden now has a title and a trailer.

Zero Dark Thirty will hit cinemas in December and the brief trailer was released online on Monday.

The Hurt Locker director started work on the project at the beginning of last year, but bin Laden's real-life assassination at the hands of U.S. Navy SEALs prompted her to rethink the film.

The film chronicles the decade-long search for the Al Qaeda leader, who masterminded the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America.