102 Minutes That Changed America

The documentary is absolutely great and the videos showed in the documentary is mindblowing where while watching this documentary makes you feel like as if you are there during 9/11 event

Probably the best of all the 9/11 documentaries. Concise while also being descriptive. Incredibly engrossing and a great formula which envelopes the unfolding real-time events perfectly. Never forget.

For how grim and terrible the subject matter is, this documentary is truly astounding in how many different angles, interviews, and pieces of raw footage it has. As sad and horrid it is to see everything in vibrant detail, it's integral to our history. Most of the footage is more disturbing than what any horror film could conjure up in any aspect. I'll say the foreboding music adds a lot to the the overall viewing experience and keeps you very intrigued to the whole doc. I would honestly say it's one of the best documentaries for real footage of a historical event.

Throughout cinema, there's certain films or TV shows that are presented in such a way that they completely and totally immerse you. Shows such as Chernobyl, or movies like Downfall come to mind. 102 Minutes That Changed America takes this and cranks it up to 11. There is not a moment in this documentary that takes you out of New York City on that morning. I would be hesitant to call this a documentary, in fact, this show is more along the lines of an archive or a time capsule. It is completely raw, organic, and brutal in it's approach to documenting the event. From watching and listening to the horror in the voices of a few college girls filming it, to the eerie silence of the almost "nuclear winter" of the streets surrounding the towers after they fell. This real-time "time capsule" is emotionally draining to watch, but it is one of the best, if not, the best documentary to ever be produced, and it will remain a timeless piece of documentation.

This doco may seem at first quite easy to make, but would have probably been hard. How do you sum up the experiences of a huge number of people in New York at the time of the World Trade Center attacks, using footage from home cameras? This piece does not have interviews, nor extra information - just the time at various points and then footage of what was happening. It's often far too meditative - lingering on shots or people that aren't that interesting - than it needed to be. The widely varied reactions are interesting - a woman far away from the towers panicks and keeps walking without stopping, whereas a man very close to the North tower before it fell is in no hurry, just stands there and says he was just making sure everyone got out of his own building. Neighbours in a small apartment building are so confused about what's going on, and the air quality outside, that they can't decide whether to stay or go. One young man watching the towers from the street seems to be almost smiling, but on closer inspection, he is upset and scowls at the camera to get out of his face. Nervous firefighters a long way from the towers fumble with their equipment before walking towards the North tower. It looks like the tower fell before they got there.

I saw this for the first time a year ago and until I saw this, I never knew how horrible 9/11 was for I was only 9 years old. Seeing this made my heart stop and start nonstop, my hair stand up on end, and adrenaline rushing through me. And although I had nothing related to 9/11, just seeing this made me feel that I do. I've watched other documentaries after I saw this and none of them were as educational as this one. I would definitely recommend this to someone who doesn't know how horrible that day was. And I have to give the crew members an A+ on the sound editing and on how they arranged all the recorded footage into the film to make an actual timeline.

There have been many documentary about 9/11 since the attack. This one took the idea of the TV show "24" and showed the events from seconds after the 1st plane hit up to about 100 min thereafter in real time. The footage used were mostly from personal camcorders, and some from TV. The audios were either directly from the camcorders, from the media coverage or phone conversations sound bites at the moment. What was interesting about the documentary is that the point of view is not at the Twin Towers, but away from the Twin Towers. You see people in Time Square watched it on the outdoor large screen. You see students watching the event from Stevens Institute across the river in Hoboken, NJ. You see how people reacted in their apartments far away from the Twin Tower. In a way, the documentary is not just about 9/11, but an anthropological view of the people's reaction upon crisis. The editing job of putting all these material together was superb.

I am literally in awe of this film. The dynamics are so extreme, the images not only heartbreaking and historic, but the definition of a tragic day that defines a generation. While difficult to take it all in, you can not take away from the heroes, the struggle people went through and the sheer collective overwhelming sense of panic and loss. It is as though you are there, but witnessing it from afar. I can see why this won all four of it's Emmy Awards, especially for the editing and sound editing and mixing - all of which are nothing less than top notch. One of the best made films of the year. This film captures the humanity as well as the force and power of science. When it tells you to move, you move. The pace of this is a phenomenal display of the events it shows. Bravo!

I was in my junior yearof highschool when this event took place. Approaching twenty years later, I decided to watch "102 minutes.." This documentary is historically important. It reflects the events of that day, unbiased. The event itself shaped so much of the next decade, and the decade after, I fekt like this film is a rare capture of a world changing event, as it unfolds, without interpretation. I walked away moved and shaken. It was incredibly moving to watch reports, first hand, in highschool..and then to revisit in my 30's. I highly recommend.

I was living in New York City, in Greenwich Village in fact, when 9/11 happened. From our neighborhood, we could see the smoke, and that horrible smell was all over the city. On the window of Ray's Pizza, people had put their "Missing" sheets. It would be a while before a lot of people knew what happened to their loved ones. Chaos reigned. This documentary takes video footage that various people shot and combines it. While the cameras were rolling, sometimes in people's apartments, in Times Square, out on the street near Ground Zero, you can hear comments. When the second plane hit, a young woman screams to her friend who's filming, "It's terrorists." Panic ensues. No one is safe. No one realizes the ramifications of even being in the area. They soon do, as the buildings collapse and a huge cloud chases the running crowds. America was completely unprepared for this tragedy. The shock, the horror, the initial reactions, the rumors that started, the anger, as well as what was happenings to the buildings, it's all documented here. Truly a no-miss.