Following the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Ken Feinberg is an attorney and mediator who is appointed by Congress to lead the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. Facing a truly impossible task to determine what each life is worth and realising that it would never be possible to replace a life in this way.
When Simon Lynch a nine year old autistic boy cracks a top secret code by doing a word search puzzle book, his life and his family are instantly put in danger when they are targeted by the NSA.
The rise of Aretha Franklin from a child singing in her father’s church choir to becoming an international superstar and the struggles that all brought, throughout her very complex and complicated life.
9/11: One Day in America is an official collaboration with the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, as a documentary series which focuses on the tragic moments on the morning of September 11th 2001. Stories told by truly incredible survivors of the attacks.
On September 11th 2001, so many people innocently went about their normal morning routine before heading to work on what was a very normal day having no idea the tragedy that was about to come. In New York City a plane hit one of the twin towers and the world watched thinking it was a truly terrible accident until a second plane hit the second tower and it was clear that America was under attack.
As a 14 year old I can still remember coming home from school and seeing the news as the plane hit the pentagon and the fourth was “brought down” we later found out about the heroics of those on board United 93. Going to school the following day in an English lesson we talked about it with newspaper reports, all struggling to understand it.
In all honesty even now twenty years later I still cannot understand this truly tragic and horrendous day, which then turned to weeks, months and years of grief for so many people. The brave emergency service workers doing their duty and not really having any idea what exactly was happening.
Over the past few weeks I have found myself watching so many documentaries about this day and the true amazing moments of human courage to help save others, it really has been an emotional journey to see and hear about more stories from this day.
Forever rest in peace to all those people from around the world who were impacted on that day and still now.
9/11 from the President’s perspective and everything that he did during that day and the decisions he had to make on the World Trade Center’s attack and how far this would then travel across America and the world.
Shaun seems to be living a very normal life working as a valet with his best friend Katy, no ambition from either of them until his past is about to catch up with him. On the bus one day he is attacked and much to Katy’s amazement he could more than handle himself.
Charlie Burnz is a veteran comedy writer who meets New York street singer Emma Payge and they form a very unique and special friendship which was what they both needed at that very moment, showing that different generations can form bonds and support one another in the best possible way.
When Sandra must do all she can to escape the abusive relationship with Gary the father of their two daughters Molly and Emma, she will stop at nothing to protect them and attempt to get a house for them to live in.
When a dying real estate mogul named Damian cannot come to terms with dying he transfers his consciousness into a health young body. Although it is not all as it first seemed with the company and the procedure as he gets flashbacks from Mark, the man who’s body he has taken over.