Minute by Minute: 1993 World Trade Center Bombing (2000) |
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Eight years before they were destroyed, the twin towers of New York City's World Trade Center survived another attack designed to topple them. Minute By Minute, A&E's first-person documentary series, tells the story of the fateful day that, in retrospect, was the first salvo in a conflict to come. The blast came just after noon on a February day. Some speculated that a transformer had blown up, but the truth was soon known — a van packed with explosives had detonated in the garage beneath the famous landmark. It was designed to bring the tower down, and while it failed, it turned the World Trade Center buildings into houses of horror. The World Trade Center Bombing uses extensive footage and the personal recollections of dozens of survivors to paint a moving and intimate picture of what it was like to live through the first skirmish in the war on terrorism. Some made it down 110 terrifying flights in stairways filled with smoke. Some were trapped in elevators without any knowledge of what had happened. Some learned lessons that would save their lives on September 11, 2001.
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Ric Burns' New York: A Documentary Film (1999) |
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If you're a fan of Ken Burns PBS documentaries such as The Civil War and Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, then you'll want to add New York, produced by Ken's brother Ric, to your collection. This exhaustively thorough documentary chronicles the evolution of the city from its time as a Dutch settlement in the early 17th century to its current status as megalopolis extraordinaire. ... There's no mistaking that this is a Burns documentary; the story is told through the now-familiar mosaic of images, interviews, music, and narrative chronicling past events. However, there are noticeable differences in the two brothers' style. While Ken Burns tends to linger over his subject matter and personalize it, Ric is more focused on the task of recounting the events in chronological order. New York is also more upbeat, as it thankfully does not employ the tiresome, whining violin dirges of which brother Ken is so fond. You don't have to be a fan of New York City to enjoy this PBS production. You just have to enjoy the experience of discovering history through the popular Burns documentary style.
— William Carr
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Part 8: The Center of the World:
In this final chapter of Ric Burns's acclaimed series New York: A Documentary Film, American Experience presents a powerful portrait of the events leading up to and away from the fall of 2001. It chronicles the construction of the towers and explores the astonishing expansion of American economic power during the second half of the twentieth century.
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Winged Migration (2001) |
Where to find the Twin Towers:
Unless it has been edited out and I didn't know about it, the movie Winged Migration has a scene from New York in which the twin towers of the WTC are quite visible.
- Thanks to Charles Knight!
The good news is that director Jacques Perrin (reportedly after a lot of soul-searching) kept the shots (above) - which are simply breathtaking. (Right around :50 in the film.)
- JR
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