{"id":6541,"date":"2009-09-11T20:07:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T19:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=6541"},"modified":"2009-09-11T20:22:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T19:22:20","slug":"102-minutes-that-changed-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/09\/11\/102-minutes-that-changed-america\/","title":{"rendered":"102 Minutes That Changed America"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Twin<\/p>\n

September 11th, 2001<\/strong> is still a date that looms over our world, eight years on from the attacks on New York and Washington<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The events that day not only saw the death of thousands of innocent people but were also a\u00a0catalyst for the\u00a0political and religious turmoil<\/a> that has engulfed the first decade of this century.<\/p>\n

There have been mainstream films about that day (the best being United 93<\/a>) and some outstanding\u00a0documentaries\u00a0such as 9\/11: \u00a0The Falling Man<\/a> and HBO’s In Memoriam: New York City 09\/11\/01<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But earlier this week Channel 4 screened<\/a> the most compelling documentary about the events of September 11th that I have seen.<\/p>\n

Entitled 102 Minutes That Changed America<\/a><\/strong>, it was produced by The History Channel<\/a> and consisted of footage shot on the day in (almost) real time without any framing,\u00a0voice-over\u00a0or overt\u00a0editorialising.<\/p>\n

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It contained a lot that I hadn’t seen before and the editing of raw video gave it a haunting and visceral impact, which\u00a0this footage<\/a> shot from the dorms of NYU gives you a flavour of.<\/p>\n

Some of it was graphic and upsetting, but it is a film I would urge people to see and the History Channel’s website has an interactive map<\/a> with more information and interviews with the people who turned on their cameras that day.<\/p>\n

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UK viewers can watch it again on 40D<\/a> whilst US viewers can watch it on the History Channel tonight at 9pm or watch selected clips here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

102 Minutes That Changed America is perhaps the most indelible documentary yet about the attacks of September 11th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}