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Glover describes the extended production team as “the very best people that you could possibly work with, in every department.”
Fundamental to the task was being able to take all the material and make it into a compelling, dramatic whole. “I love this bit,” says Glover, “taking a really messy, huge amount of story and archive and trying to lay it out, like a novel.” As well as needing a box-set feel for the streamer audience, Nat Geo were after closed episodes.
Light In the darkness
“One thing that emerged was that each film was about something slightly different, as the experience changed hour by hour.” The second episode, when people were told to go back to their desks, he describes as “a vision of hell”; in the fourth episode, the dust cloud from the towers’ collapse leaves people searching for colleagues, friends, family, “looking for the people they love”. While in the final episode, when the site is declared a no-go zone, we see a former paramedic and an ex-marine put on their uniform, “discovering who they used to be” and going to the rescue, regardless.
The production partnered with the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, located on the site of the Twin Towers and commemorating the 2,977 people who died in the terror attacks. “It’s done so brilliantly, we felt that if we could make our series in the same vein as the museum, with the same respect, emotion, simplicity…It was like our North Star.”
The series features many acts of human kindness, but it doesn’t hide the devastation. “There are innocent people being horribly killed and I like to think that we didn’t shy away from that,” says Glover. “At times, it’s incredibly bleak, but at its heart it’s a genuine reflection. There was incredible darkness and there were shafts of light.”
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