Two brothers film different parts of the city. One is in the towers showing the firefighters and the other is in the streets showing the civilians. You can see and hear everything in this movie. You hear people falling from the building, screaming of people, the shock on everyone's faces, and the towers being crashed into and falling.This documentary follows the firefighters struggle and how everyone banded together to save lives.What was going to be a totally different documentary turned into thee best one documenting a tragic moment in history. This documentary shows what everyone went through on that fateful day.

9/11 is a documentary about the September 11 attacks in New York City, in which two planes crashed into the buildings of the World Trade Center from the point of view of the New York City Fire Department.It is an extraordinary record of that fateful day in New York City.Telecast to coincide with the six-month "anniversary" of the horrific terrorist attack on New York's World Trade Center,it was directed by Jules and Gedeon Naudet, and FDNY firefighter James Hanlon.This one-of-a-kind documentary was originally conceived as a portrait of 21-year-old Tony Benetatos, a firefighter trainee at Manhattan's Duane Street firehouse, located seven blocks from the World Trade Center. By the time filming was finished, brothers Jules and Gedeon Naudet had captured history in the making, including the only image of the first jetliner striking Tower 1, and the only footage from within the tower as it collapsed. This is not, however, a film about the murderous nightmare of terrorism. It's the ultimate rite-of-passage drama, more immediate and meaningful than any fiction film could be with Benetatos and his supportive colleagues emerging as heroes of the first order involved it became an important journalistic work by simply capturing a moment in time.This documentary will endure forever as a tribute to those, living and dead, who witnessed hell on that sunny Tuesday morning on September 11,2001.

And after 11 years I sat through it and had almost no reactions to any of it because even though it's real there are parts of it that just seem fake and this is due to the fact that there has been a lot revealed since then and we know more now than we did before and I still believe that George W. Bush is a liar and know more than he was letting on and that I still can't believe he's still sitting on his ranch in Crawford Texas being protected by the Secret Service and private contractors. I still think that he belongs in prison for the lies he told to the American people and refused to tell us the real truth after he told Matt Lauer on the Today Show "I'm not going to argue the semantics of issues with you Matt".

Let me get the bad out of the way first, James Hanlon is absolutely terrible trying to act his descriptions of what was going on with the rookie training and events of the day. Really it is in stark contract to the other fire fighters without acting aspirations who are natural in their delivery.That said it is an amazing film that is impossible to watch without tears in my eyes. I am an English guy from London but I love New York and have visited many many times before and after September 11th. It is a second home to me and I can't help but feel devastated at the loss of life but also the destruction of part of such an amazing beautiful city. This is the real deal, in with the fire fighters with everything collapsing around them. I am so glad the footage exists to show people how it was on the day. It is a shame that they didn't use any footage of people jumping from the buildings because friends who were there tell me this is such a major part of their memory, it should be included to show future generations just how terrible it really was.Conspiracy theorists can go to hell by the way.