Witness to 9/11: In the Shadows of Ground Zero

  • Documentary
9/1/2020
55

Storyline

With never-before-seen footage, "Witness to 9/11" reveals in real time how New Yorkers struggled to make sense out of the panic, confusion, and fear gripping their city just beyond the veil of 9/11's dust on the morning of the attacks.

Budget:
$150,000

Reviews

  • narrator56

    I wasnt sure what to expect from this documentary. 9/11 is a well-worn subject and this film comes to us about twenty years after the event. It is fairly short, coming in at an hour or so and its perspective uses a familiar angle, that of getting reactions from bystanders and witnesses on the scene. But unlike other documentaries on the subject, that is all it uses.

    The film works best when it records the immediate and visceral reaction of the people in front of the camera. The shock and the tears are real. They react as we would have in their place. It shows some of the rumors that were spread in real time: that there were 8 hijacked planes, that a plane had crashed into Camp David.

    But there were times when my attention drifted,whe...

    November 17, 2020

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