Search results
Race Against Time: The CIA and 9/11. Follows former top officials and elite operatives inside the CIA as they share accounts of their efforts to stop Osama bin Laden and the catastrophic attack they knew was coming.
- (91)
- Documentary
- Matthew DeVoe
- 2021-09-10
9/11: Minute by Minute: Directed by Piers Garland. With Bob Taylor, Betty Ong, Nydia Gonzalez, George W. Bush. 9/11 attacks by 19 extremists hijacking 4 planes, killing thousands. Explores response through recordings - air traffic control, military, firefighters.
- (238)
- Documentary, History
- Piers Garland
- 2021-09-07
- The Impact of 9/11 on Television
- The Impact of 9/11 on Films
- 9/11 in Documentaries
The TV industry first broached the sensitive topics, with Law & Order being one of the first series’ to incorporate the events into its Season 12 plot. Elsewhere, South Park’s first episode to air in 2001 after the attack revolved around America’s invasion of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin also wrote a special episode ab...
Filmmakers tentatively began to cover the terror attacks in 2006 with a mixture of attempts trying to contextualize the events, framing the day as something the world could learn and heal from. Director Paul Greengrass chose to tell the story of the United Airlines flight that was aiming to crash into the White House on September 11 in his film, Un...
For all the fictional big-screen efforts and TV series, filmmakers have been able to explore 9/11 the most efficiently with documentaries. Faring better with audience response, Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 was praised for touching on the sensitive subject when it was released in 2004. Many argue it sparked a wave of new interest in documentaries...
- Nola Ojomu
- Sarah Paris
- World Trade Center. "World Trade Center" wasn't the first film about 9/11 to see a Hollywood release, but it remains one of the most hopeful and tear-jerking movies about the aftermath of the attacks.
- United 93. While many 9/11 films focus solely on the attack on the World Trade Center, "United 93" provides insight into the heroic actions of passengers on United Airlines 93.
- The Guys. Although both "World Trade Center" and "United 93" were released within five years of the 9/11 attacks, they weren't Hollywood's first attempts at depicting that horrible day.
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" was one of the first major 9/11 movies to deal with the emotional impact on children who lost a parent in the attacks.
Sep 3, 2021 · Sept 3 (Reuters) - A slew of new films and TV series are being released around the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks, taking different approaches as the United States...
The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11. Worth is a 2021 American biographical film written and co-produced by Max Borenstein and directed by Sara Colangelo. Based on the memoir by lawyer Kenneth Feinberg, the film depicts Feinberg's handling of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.
Aug 31, 2021 · 9/11: One Day in America: Season 1 (2021) 9 p.m., National Geographic Channel. This immersive docuseries told in first-person narrative chronicles, at times minute-by-minute, the events of...
