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Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

102 minutes of my life that I'd like back.When this aired on a french-language tv station (translated as "102 Minutes That Changed The World"), I quickly looked up an original version to stream and came across the 15th anniversary edition of this documentary.The footage is simply not interesting. We still see the burning twin towers and people running all over the place, but not even footage of the actual planes that hit the towers. Also, they sometimes cut to a clock, trying to put the footage in a chronologic order, but the clock gets shown with even 1/100 of seconds, as if they ever could line up the footage that precise (most of it overlaps, so, more than anything, it chops up the full length in chapters).Even more so: for the 15th anniversary edition, it cuts out to do some interviews with people that were indirectly impacted (either lived nearby or that have lost a family member) while they are looking back with the interviewer. Hardly interesting and cuts what little energy the documentary had to begin with.It's footage from 9/11, so it's hard to remain unaffected looking at this for nearly 2 hours. But... If you're looking for more impressive footage: find a different documentary. If you're looking for something more educative: find a different documentary. If you're looking for something concise: find a different documentary.This is the least interesting 9/11 documentary out there.

I was living in New York City, in Greenwich Village in fact, when 9/11 happened. From our neighborhood, we could see the smoke, and that horrible smell was all over the city. On the window of Ray's Pizza, people had put their "Missing" sheets. It would be a while before a lot of people knew what happened to their loved ones. Chaos reigned.This documentary takes video footage that various people shot and combines it. While the cameras were rolling, sometimes in people's apartments, in Times Square, out on the street near Ground Zero, you can hear comments. When the second plane hit, a young woman screams to her friend who's filming, "It's terrorists." Panic ensues. No one is safe. No one realizes the ramifications of even being in the area. They soon do, as the buildings collapse and a huge cloud chases the running crowds.America was completely unprepared for this tragedy. The shock, the horror, the initial reactions, the rumors that started, the anger, as well as what was happenings to the buildings, it's all documented here. Truly a no-miss.

There are over 100,000 stories concerning the people of New York who were in Manhattan on that fateful day. This documentary shows the footage that some of them shot that day on video cameras. With superb editing it concentrator's less on the news footage of the towers falling but more on the reactions and emotions of the people who were either living in Manhattan or working there. With all the footage available I daresay a dozen films could be made as good as this one but the film makers did make a good choice of footage to use. We see the reaction of people watching the news feed in Time Square, in the bars and on the TV. The sight of the ash cloud as the second tower went down looked like something after a nuclear war. As for my own insignificant story. I was in London working in my office on the 23rd floor watching it all happen on CNN. I looked out of the window on a brilliantly sunny day and could see all the way to the Alexandra Palace. I really felt vulnerable all of a sudden and after an emergency meeting with the Bank's Bosses we all went home.A powerful piece of film, a must-watch for everyone.

There have been many documentary about 9/11 since the attack. This one took the idea of the TV show "24" and showed the events from seconds after the 1st plane hit up to about 100 min thereafter in real time. The footage used were mostly from personal camcorders, and some from TV. The audios were either directly from the camcorders, from the media coverage or phone conversations sound bites at the moment. What was interesting about the documentary is that the point of view is not at the Twin Towers, but away from the Twin Towers. You see people in Time Square watched it on the outdoor large screen. You see students watching the event from Stevens Institute across the river in Hoboken, NJ. You see how people reacted in their apartments far away from the Twin Tower. In a way, the documentary is not just about 9/11, but an anthropological view of the people's reaction upon crisis. The editing job of putting all these material together was superb.