"The World Trade Center: Rise and Fall of an American Icon" discusses the planning, construction, collapse, recovery, and cleanup of the buildings in the aftermath of their destruction by an act of Islamic terrorism.
Direction
Schneider balances technical awe with human cost.
Editing
Jarring cuts between construction glory and collapse.
Director
Lee Schneider
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The original WTC design was so radical that critics nicknamed it 'David and Nelson' after the Rockefeller brothers who pushed it through.
The documentary notably includes the often-erased story of the 1960s street-level economy destroyed to make way for the towers—gentrification before the word existed.
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