9/11: Escape from the Towers

9/11: Escape from the Towers

2018 · 86 min · ★ 7.8 · Documentary, History

Each World Trade Center tower consisted of 110 floors. Each floor has a story. In this two-hour special, survivors from two of those floors, many speaking publicly for the first time, tell their stories. Focusing on one floor in the North Tower and one in the South, this film will provide a never-before-achieved intimacy with what it was really like to be inside the Twin Towers on 9/11.

Directed by Grace Chapman

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