National Geographic: Inside 9/11

- Season 1

(2005)

Amid the terror and the chaos of 9/11, some New Yorkers grabbed their cameras and hit the streets to document the events of that tragic day. Six filmmakers, professionals and amateurs, share their extraordinary footage and relate first-hand accounts.

War on America opens with the dramatic 1993 World Trade Center bombing and tracks terrorist activities aimed at U.S. targets throughout the 1990s leading up to the horrific morning of September 11, 2001. With each successful attack, al Qaeda becomes more emboldened. With each failure of the U.S. government to respond or stop their activities, the organization and the legend of Osama bin Laden grow.

Inside 9/11: Zero Hour captures the horror and the heroism witnessed on September 11, 2001, and takes you into the last moments of those who died that day and the thousands of others who survived the tragedy but will always live with the battle scars from a day we will never forget. National Geographic follows the footsteps of the terrorists as they formulated their plans, infiltrated our country and executed their suicide missions.

Inside 9/11: The War Continues tells the evolving story of radical Islam's war against the West. Osama bin Laden has finally been brought to justice, but al Qaeda is still going strong.

National Geographic reconstructs the attack on the nation's capital moment by moment entirely through home video; fire, rescue, and police footage; and news coverage. Footage from the Pentagon crash site taken shortly after impact captures a raw view of the devastating aftermath. Cameras throughout the city document the chaotic evacuation from the Capitol and White House as air traffic controllers grapple with the potential of another hijacked plane targeting the White House.

Amateur and professional New York filmmakers provide never-before-seenimages of the events of September 11th through the raw and personalfootage they captured that day.

On Sept. 11, 2001, New York City's mayor led a city struck by tragedy back from the brink -- from the moment the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history began. Intimately involved and personally vulnerable, Rudy Giuliani revisits the day he was confronted by the assault on U.S. territory.

In the most in-depth televised interview he has ever given on the subject, President Bush reveals his personal journey through one of the most unforgettable moments in modern American history.