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  • Actors: Tony Benatatos, Jamal Braithwaite, Steve Buscemi, Joseph Casaliggi, Robert De Niro
  • Directors: James Hanlon, Gédéon Naudet, Jules Naudet, Rob Klug
  • Writers: Greg Kandra, Tom Forman
  • Producers: Bruce Spiegel, David Friend
  • Format: PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Exempt
  • Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 12 Sep 2002
  • Run Time: 120 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00006LSE8
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 5,052 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Synopsis
French filmmaking brothers Jules and Gedeon Naudet came to New York in the fall of 2001 to make a documentary about a rookie fireman from Manhattan's Engine 7, Ladder 1 company. On the morning of September 11, while the production was still in the early stages of filming, the project become something that no one could ever have expected. The Naudet brothers accompanied the firefighters that morning to the World Trade Center, capturing on film their valiant efforts to get survivors to safety. Originally broadcast on CBS television, 9/11 is a heartfelt, often shocking-- but never exploitative--portrayal of the horrific events of that historic and tragic day. A portion of the proceeds from the video will benefit the Uniformed Firefighters' Association Scholarship Fund.

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40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars ONLY DOCUMENTARY ON 9/11, 13 Jan 2005
By F. Sweet (Midwestern USA) - See all my reviews
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Of course, when the Naudet brothers visited the United States from their native France, they did not expect to make a film about the terrorist attack on New York City on Sept. 11, 2001. Rather, they simply had planned to film the journey of Antonio "Tony" Benetatos from being a probationary firefighter (or "probie") to a full-fledged firefighter.

The first 25 minutes of "9/11" are rather uneventful as one would expect for Benetatos's first weeks on the job. It didn't involve any major disasters. As the Naudets say during the film, most of the footage that they had involved watching the firefighters cooking and eating and cleaning the firehouse.

On the morning ofSept. 11, Jules Naudet followed a couple of crew chiefs on a routine inspection of gas outlets in the streets of NYC. Unusually loud airplane engines, signaling their low-altitude presence, caught Jules' attenetion while he happened to look up through his video camera. Thus he captured the only known footage of the first airplane crashing into the World Trade Tower. Meanwhile, his brother Gedeon, who was still at the firehouse, began making his way towards the WTC on foot. Accompanied by their firefighter friends, both brothers captured extraordinary footage of what was to become "Ground Zero."

One brother was in the lobby of WTC Tower 1 just as the firefighters began planning their rescue operations. When the towers collapsed, one of the Naudets was actually trapped inside the lobby of one of the towers, while the other brother was right outside of the 1st tower when it collapsed. He was almost buried by the falling debris, as a thick cloud of dust and smoke engulfs him and his camera.

Some of "9/11" is difficult to watch. The awful sound of bodies slamming into the ground, falling from above the 85th floor. The area around the WTC looks like nuclear winter had descended upon Earth, mixed with heart-wrenching shots of fallen heroes who had just given their lives to save others.

There's the devastating story of how the Naudet brothers think that the other one may have died under the fallen buildings. When it turns out that miraculously no one from Battalion One was missing, one of the Naudets remembers how a firefighter told him, "Yesterday, you had 1 brother. Today, you have 50."

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars It will take your breath away, 10 Feb 2005
By D. Reynolds (Hertfordshire) - See all my reviews
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Anyone who was either in New York when it happened or watched it on the news would think it's some kind of movie. The tragedy, the day that shocked the world. When i watched it, i just couldn't believe it. It was just so...

They were just two innocent cameramen who were making a tape on somebody becoming a firefighter. They picked someone who was sent to a firefighting station in New York to complete his course. He was waiting for his first major fire to fight. Days and days he waited but still no fire.

It was a normal morning in New York, people were going to work and school etc. The fire station were called to investigate a gas tank a few blocks from the WTC. Filmed as-it-happened. I remember one of the brothers (Narrating in a interview) saying in a voiceover, "Then suddenly we heard a plane flying over but you don't hear many planes flying low expecially in Manhattan". Everybody's heads were turned onto the sound of the plane.

Their heads were turned by the sound of plane until it went smashing into one of towers. The camera caught it and it takes your breath away. You sit there and wish it was a movie. It makes you think, think about those people on the plane, whats going through everyone's head in New York. You hear the people of New York shouting "Holy S***" and hear the disbelief in their voice.

The firefighters are called and the two brothers are split up. One is called to go with the firefighters into the struck tower. The other to stay at the station where to rookie firefighter was also asked to stay.

As forces are called into the tower, which they label Tower 1, and the cameraman follows them into the tower. You can see what the planes impact caused as he walked in there. Windows all smashed. Debris scattered over New York. Then after a while inside the tower there is another explosion and debris comes flying down to the ground. The second tower is struck by a plane.

It goes over to the cameraman who was at the station. He had wandered out. He caught the second impact on tape.

As time goes on in the film length documentary more things start to unfold and you see what the terrorist attacks from 9/11 really caused. Lives were lost. Brothers ripped apart. And the world shaken. A true must buy for anyone out there. Buy it now and show it to your children or Grandchilden to show what happened when you were younger. BUY IT

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48 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential viewing for everyone, 12 Sep 2003
By Proudmomofagayson (Berkshire, UK) - See all my reviews
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I watched this DVD yesterday on the Second Anniversary of 9/11 and it was one of the most difficult things I have ever watched but I am glad that I did. At the beginning it states that "Viewer discretion is advised" partly because of some of the scenes and of course the occasional swear word but that aside, I believe this documentary is essential viewing for anyone who wants to be a witness to the horrific events that unfolded on the 11th September 2001.

Brothers Jules and Gedeon Naudet were filming a piece about Firefighters in New York City and had picked one rookie Tony, who they were going to follow through his 9 month probationary period from fresh-faced applicant right through to his becoming a Fireperson in his own right, so for the first 20 minutes or so it's a regular film about Fire station life. Then everything changes.....

The firefighters get called out to a routine gas check and it's then that you hear what sounds like a low-flying plane directly overhead. One of the firefighters remarks on it because you don't normally get planes flying over Manhattan and by the time the camera is turned in the direction of the plane, you see it slicing into one of the Twin Towers. Then you get to see the firefighters as they are racing through the City and towards Tower 1 and already the sky is thick with smoke and people are rushing out onto the streets to see what is going on.

One of the brothers films from INSIDE Tower 1 (the only footage anywhere of what was happening from inside the WTC) while the other brother takes his camera out onto the streets where you get to see firsthand reactions from the New Yorkers who are gathered there. Inside the Tower you see debris strewn everywhere and people running about trying to get out. It's harrowing to watch and especially because every minute or so, you hear very loud thuds echoing across the lobby of the WTC and these are people's bodies as they hit the building, having either jumped from or fallen out from the top 20 storeys or so.

It's not only a film about the tragedy that befell NYC on that day but also about the bravery of the Firefighters who risked life and limb to go in there to get people out. James Hanlon (a firefighter with the company that Jules and Gedeon were filming for) supplies a voiceover for parts of the documentary and interspliced with this are clips of the Fire Station itself and of other Firepersons whose lives were impacted and affected on that fateful day.

I would recommend anyone to watch this because it's something that I believe everyone should see. You also get to hear the sound of Tower 2 coming down from inside Tower 1 and then you see as they battle to find an exit from where they find themselves. You are then taken through the lobby of the building and outside where you are confronted by the full horror of the scene, there are what looks like bodies strewn on the ground and even more debris and white dust. You then walk out and can see the remaining Tower still standing but on fire. Several minutes later, this too comes down and you see the cameraman running with all of the Firepersons and then laying down in front of a truck for protection as yet more debris rains down on the stricken City.

It's a brilliant documentary that gives you the inside track on what happened that day. You see NYC just hours before and there's an almost idyllic calm as the sun comes up over Manhattan, you are then shown the fire crews as they busy themselves for the approaching day, you see them as they realise the full horror of what is transpiring as soon as the first plane hits the WTC and you see the people of NYC attempting to make some sense of what is happening as it's happening. This is essential viewing and cannot come more highly recommended.

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