6 x 60 / September 2021
In official collaboration with the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, this documentary series is told through the eyes and testimony of those caught up in the events of September 11, 2001. A detailed account of that day, the films shine a light on the resilience, kindness and bravery that human beings are capable of when tested in such extreme and difficult circumstances.
WINNER: EMMY (News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Documentary 2022)
WINNER: EMMY (News and Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Promotional Announcement 2022)
WINNER: Broadcast Award (Best documentary series 2022)
WINNER: RTS (Programme Awards Best Documentary Series 2022)
NOMINATED: BAFTA (Best Factual Series 2022)
NOMINATED: EMMY (News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition 2022)
★★★★ “Gut-wrenchingly immediate” – THE TELEGRAPH
“A tour de force” – THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
“9/11: One Day in America never allows you to look away” – NEW STATESMAN
“A genuine masterpiece of the genre” – CLAPPER
“9/11: One Day in America’ Filmmakers on Showcasing the ‘Best and Worst of Humanity” – VARIETY
“9/11: One Day in America” is the product of a massive undertaking, involving sorting through 951 hours of archival footage, including shots never seen before on TV, to build out a narrative of that day told by those who survived it, and in chronological order [ and] takes us inside the terror attacks with those who survived them” – SALON.COM
“[The] film works so well because of the way its pieced together and the willingness to let the archive material and survivor’s voices tell the story in their own words. 9/11: One Day in America is a powerful and moving account of one of the darkest days in modern American history” – SHEFFIELD DOC FEST
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