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LOOKING AWAY IS NOT AN OPTION


Executive producer David Glover describes the massive challenge of sifting hundreds of hours of archive and finding survivors to tell the unfolding story of the Twin Towers attack in 9/11: One Day in America across six episodes


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“It’s very pure in its conception. Seven hours of documentary, all set on a single day, with no graphics, no narration, just human testimony and the archive. It’s a God’s eye view,” says David Glover, executive producer on the series and co-founder of production company 72 Films.


9/11: One Day in America takes six episodes to re-live the 9/11 attacks as they happened, across the day. The first episode is called First Response; the last, It’s All Gone Kid. It was released on National Geographic in 2021, to commemorate the 20-year anniversary of the tragedy.


A huge ratings success, it also has an Emmy, a Broadcast Award and an RTS Award to range alongside the Televisual Bulldog.


“It’s not trying to explain how it happened, or give political commentary, or discuss terrorism or anything that normal history documentary might do. We wanted to get the audience to experience it through the eyes of the people who were right at the centre. It’s an insight into human nature, through the day.”


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Critics called it a “tour de force,” noting its “exhaustive attention to detail.” The ambition was for the audience to feel as if they were close to the experience; one critic described it as “gut wrenchingly immediate.” Podcaster Carson Timar said: “It never allows you to look away. Even with countless other pieces of media tackling the same subject, it is hard to view 9/11: One Day in America as anything but one of the best.”


Glover describes the stripped-back approach to the present tense narrative:


WE WANTED TO GET THE


To create the series, the team took a year to sift through over 600 hours of footage, taken on the day, and to identify characters where there was a story that stood out and where they could interview the survivors. Consultant executive producer Steve Humphries, producer of several 9/11 documentaries,


brought his knowledge of the day and potential contributors.


Episode one opens with the first fire chief on the scene, who also lost his brother; in the same film, is a business man who had a meeting at the foot of the towers on the day and whose sister died on one of the hijacked planes. The narrative, with intertwining stories, maps the attack. “We looked at it like a battlefield and saw people criss-crossing,” says Glover.


The series was directed by Daniel Bogado, with series producer Caroline Marsden.


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