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The date — September 11 — is impossible to forget, but what about the details of the events, the players, the aftermath and repercussions? In the years since the 2001 attack, filmmakers have honored those who lost lives and loved ones or risked their lives in rescue, and keep the memory alive. Here are 10 important movies and TV documentaries, all streaming now.
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United 93 (2006, R)
On United Airlines Flight 93, one of the four commercial airliners hijacked on September 11, the passengers and crew thwarted an attack on the U.S. Capitol. Everyone aboard died when it crashed in Pennsylvania. This act of citizen heroism — and the minute-by-minute drama of those aboard, government officials and air traffic controllers — plays out in real time in the Oscar-nominated United 93, directed by Paul Greengrass, 65, who kept the drama’s details very close to real events.
Watch it: United 93 on Peacock, Prime Video
The Looming Tower (2018)
Jeff Daniels, 69, Alec Baldwin, 66, and Peter Sarsgaard, 53, star in Hulu’s brilliant adaptation of Lawrence Wright’s 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, which told the entire story of the tragedy. Helmed by Dan Futterman (Capote) and Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney along with Wright, The Looming Tower is a taut 10-episode series about the late-1990s rise of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, and how intra-agency battles between the FBI and CIA counterterrorism divisions may have set the table for tragedies to come.
Watch it: The Looming Tower on Apple TV, Hulu
The Report (2019, R)
This Amazon Original historical political drama directed by Scott Z. Burns (Contagion) digs into the intelligence-gathering aftermath of 9/11. Annette Bening, 66, plays Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who chooses senate staffer Daniel J. Jones (Adam Driver) to lead a Senate Intelligence Committee review of 6 million pages of CIA materials on “enhanced interrogation techniques.”
Watch it: The Report on Prime Video
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