September 11, 2001 Resources

Books and Videos concerning the World Trade Center and the 1993/2001 bombings.

Books:
Report from Ground Zero: The Story of the Rescue Efforts at the World Trade Center
by Dennis Smith; March 2002

Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York City's World Trade Center by Eric Darton; January 2001

Twin Towers: The Life of New York City's World Trade Center
by Angus Kress Gillespie; November 1999

Two Seconds Under the World: Terror Comes to America - The Conspiracy Behind the World Trade Center Bombing
by Jim Dwyer, Deidre Murphy, Peg Tyre, David Kocieniewski (Editor); 1994

Documentaries/Videos Available from A&E/The History Channel:

1993 World Trade Center Bombing - The premier episode of A&E's innovative new series Minute By Minute tells the story of the 1993 bombing in the words of those who were there. Eight years before they were destroyed, the twin towers of New York City's World Trade Center survived another attack designed to topple them. The premier episode of Minute By Minute, A&E's new first-person documentary series, tells the story of the fateful day that, in retrospect, was the first salvo in a conflict to come.
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9/11: A 5th Anniversary Commemorative DVD Set - September 11th a date permanently etched into the collective memory of millions. It is a date that forever changed the world; a date where innocence was lost. In this special fifth anniversary commemorative, the tragedy, the joy, the miracles and the madness are all memorialized on a single two-DVD set. The story of September 11, 2001 is told using moving images, scholarly research and expert commentary.
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9/11: The Total Story DVD Collection - From the building to destruction of the World Trade Center, pictures and cherished momentos from the terrorist attacks, to the 9/11 Commission Report. 9/11:The Total Story DVD Collection paints a comprehensive picture of the devestation and loss of September 11th 2001.
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Ground Zero America DVD Set - Four-volume set includes The History Channel's acclaimed tribute to the World Trade Center. Completed months before the tragedy, World Trade Center: In Memoriam chronicles the history and construction of the engineering and architectural marvel. The set also contains First Response, Chemical and Biological Weapons and The Pentagon.
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The Miracle of Stairway B DVD - The DVD reveals the chain of uncanny coincidences and bizarre events that enabled these individuals to stay alive when so many were dying all around them. In telling their interlocking stories from the time they woke on 9/11 to the moment they were finally reunited with their families, this moving special also tells the bigger story of the heroic efforts of the firefighters to save lives--and of the 2,700 men and women who never made it home.
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Relics From the Rubble DVD - Now available on DVD, this special edition of THIS WEEK IN HISTORY looks at the September 11th disaster through the lens of the personal stories surrounding the Relics From the Rubble. In these intimate tales, a vastly different picture of the tragedy emerges, a tapestry of personal memories and struggles and the power that the smallest token of a lost loved one has to bring solace to those left behind.
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Trapped in the Tower - The Elevators of 9-11

Trapped in the Towers: The Elevators of 911 DVD - Survivors tell their wrenching stories about the horrors of being stuck in the burning towers and their amazing fight to survive. Some of them have never before shared the drama of their escape with television viewers. But here, and combined with actual footage from the day, re-enactments and vivid graphics, the passengers on World Trade Center elevators recount how they were caught in a cruel twist of fate and how - by luck or by sheer determination - they managed to cheat death.
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World Trade Center: In Memoriam - Filmed in February 2001 for the Modern Marvels series. This comprehensive look at the toppled landmark includes extensive interviews with many of the people who were involved in the planning, design and construction of the World Trade Center. Executives at Minoru Yamasaki Associates recall how the plans were shaped, and explain how the engineering decisions they made directly affected the final appearance of the complex.
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World Trade Center: Rise and Fall - This DVD tells the complete story of the World Trade Center, from the obstacles that the architects and engineers overcame in building the massive center to the daunting task of cleaning up the 16-acre disaster site after September 11th. Footage shows every aspect of the recovery work at Ground Zero, following US Army robots as they search for human remains wreckage and revealing how 2 million tons of debris were removed. Engineers detail what they discovered in their "autopsy" of the buildings.
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