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Today marks the twenty second anniversary of the September 11 assaults that noticed the destruction of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and different assaults throughout the States. What documentaries and flicks does Netflix have overlaying the occasions of that day? Here’s a have a look at what’s streaming in 2023.
Sadly, Netflix’s library overlaying the pivotal day in US and world historical past isn’t fairly as intensive as, say, Disney+/Hulu (which homes the National Geographic library and obtained 4 new docs this 12 months alone); it has been rising.
Turning Point 9/11 And The War on Terror
Released on Netflix: September 1st, 2021
Available on Netflix: Globally
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Netflix launched its first-ever documentary sequence concerning the day on its twentieth anniversary 12 months in 2021. Directed by Brian Knappenberger (The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz), the sequence makes use of interviews and unique footage to chronicle the earlier than and after.
5 episodes had been launched in whole, and the sequence goes in a number of completely different instructions. Episode 1 primarily focuses on the day itself, with a lot of the opposite episodes specializing in the brief and long-term repercussions of the day.
Worth
Released on Netflix: September third, 2021
Available on Netflix: Globally
Also launched on Netflix on the twentieth anniversary 12 months of the assaults was this new scripted characteristic movie that comes from the Obama manufacturing firm, Higher Ground.
Directed by Sara Colangelo, the film follows a lawyer dealing with an emotional reckoning and uphill battle as he makes an attempt to place a greenback worth on the lives misplaced.
The Anthrax Attacks In The Shadow of 9/11 (2022)
Released on Netflix: September eighth, 2022
Available on Netflix: Globally
The week after 9/11, a slew of organic assaults rocked the US capital, with 5 individuals ultimately killed and 17 injured. This documentary, directed by Dan Krauss, follows these occasions.
Clark Gregg (Painkiller, Agents of Shield) lends his appearing efficiency to the documentary, enjoying the position of Bruce Edwards Ivins, a microbiologist and vaccinologist who turned central to the authorized case.
Spy Ops (Episode 1 – Operation Jawbreaker)
Released on Netflix: September eighth, 2023
Available on Netflix: Globally
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Newly launched on Netflix in 2023, is Spy Ops, a brand new eight-part documentary utilizing knowledgeable testimony from insiders from the British MI6 and American CIA to element among the most prolific operations and plots over the previous few many years.
The very first episode takes a have a look at what occurred simply a few weeks after the 9/11 assaults, with CIA operatives arriving in Afghanistan within the hopes of dismantling the Taliban.
History 101 (Season 1 – Oil and the Middle East)
Released on Netflix: May twenty second, 2022
Available on Netflix: Globally
History 101 is a two-season Netflix docuseries that appears into many alternative matters, together with Nuclear Power, Fast Food, The Rise of China, GPS, and rather more.
One of the episodes in season 1 lined how oil and the Middle East have developed over the previous few years and, maybe extra importantly, destabilized the area, resulting in the occasions that performed a job in 9/11.
How to Become a Tyrant (Episode 2 – Crush Your Rivals)
Released on Netflix: July ninth, 2021
Available on Netflix: Globally
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This documentary sequence appears to be like into among the greatest tyrants in human historical past, and in episode 2, Saddam Hussein, who was the President of Iraq from 1979 by 2003.
9/11 was one of many key occasions that led to the last word struggle in Iraq, and intrinsically linked to that’s the rise of Saddam Hussein, who at one level was believed to be behind the assaults (President Bush later admitted that to not be the case).
9/11 Documentaries and Movies Available on Netflix Internationally
World Trade Center
Available on Netflix: At least 14 nations, together with the United Kingdom, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden, France
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Nicholas Cage headlines this docudrama movie from director Oliver Stone. It’s concerning the Port Authority Police who had been dispatched to the North Tower on that fateful and leads a bunch of volunteers to assist rescue individuals from the North Tower.
The film generally heads to Netflix within the United States, with its final tenure on the service ending in June 2022. According to JustWatch, the film at the moment resides on Showtime / Paramount+.