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Feb 21, 2023 · The film gives a raw look at the massive losses experienced by the New York City Fire Department and was released in fairly close proximity to the events of 9/11. After the play opened in Los ...
- Sarah Paris
Nov 9, 2023 · The documentary 9/11 (2017), directed by Gédéon and Jules Naudet, revisits the harrowing events of the September 11 attacks, fifteen years after their groundbreaking 2002 documentary. Through the use of previously unseen footage and interviews with first responders, survivors, and family members, the film provides a deeply moving and intimate ...
Sep 8, 2021 · Today we’re recommending seven movies about 9/11 and its consequences. Some of these films are fictional. Others are inspired by, or based on, actual events. Either way, they each try to provide ...
- Kenneth Feinberg
- Charles Wolf
- Camille Biros
- Composite Characters
Kenneth Feinberg, the lawyer who was Special Master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, is played by Michael Keaton in the movie, and his portrait is typical for this kind of movie: There are a lot of correct details, but the overall shape of events has been massaged a little to fit into a film narrative. Feinberg chronicled his experie...
Charles Wolf, the husband of a Sept. 11 victim who was an early critic of Feinberg’s administration of the fund, is played by Stanley Tucci in the movie. He’s a much bigger part of Feinberg’s story in the movie than he seems to have been in real life, and some adjustments have been made to make him a better foil for Feinberg. For starters, he’s mov...
Camille Biros is played by Amy Ryan on-screen, and if her official role at Feinberg’s firm is not entirely clear in Worth, that’s because the Sept. 11 Victims Compensation Fund seems to have been a turning point for her career. Biros, who is not a lawyer, became Feinberg’s administrative assistant in 1979 when he was working for Ted Kennedy. By 200...
Any movie based on a true story has composite characters, but Worth has more than most, because both Feinberg and the filmmakers are sensitive to the privacy of the families of the Sept. 11 victims. There are two important composite characters who are not victims, though: sleazy corporate lawyer Lee Quinn (Tate Donovan) and up and coming Feinberg a...
- Matthew Dessem
Sep 10, 2021 · 9/11: One Day In America (2021) In August 2021, the National Geographic Channel released one of most comprehensive and moving documentary series about the September 11 attacks with 9/11: One Day ...
- Philip Sledge
Sep 11, 2021 · In the last two weeks, Netflix has debuted new content aimed at the anniversary, including Worth, a biopic starring Michael Keaton as the attorney in charge of the September 11 Victim Compensation ...
A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on September 11th, 2001 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot. Director Paul Greengrass Stars David Alan Basche Olivia Thirlby Liza Colón-Zayas. 6. Fahrenheit 9/11. 2004 2h 2m R.
