With a deluge of 9/11 anniversary programs available this week, can anything new be said two decades after the fact? The answer is an emphatic yes, with sweeping histories, focused documentaries and even a look at comedy in the wake of tragedy
deluge of 9/11 anniversary programs available this week, for an audience of two basic constituencies: viewers who lived through the event and have been reliving it ever since, and viewers too young to have lived through it, but have been reliving it ever since. Can anything new be said two decades after the fact? The answer is an emphatic yes, even if the catastrophe has never, for a moment, gone away.a “Frontline” presentation.
Survivors of the attack covered in dust and debris from the fallen WTC towers as seen in an episode of ‘Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror’Strictly in terms of storytelling, there’s an interesting contrast to be drawn between “One Day in America” andwhich is currently on Netflix. Watching the former, viewers are constantly off balance—not about what will ultimately happen, but about what they will be shown en route to a cataclysmic denouement.
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