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KillingSummary: Tells the riveting, behind-the-scenes story of Cantor Fitzgerald. On September 10, 2001, financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald was headquartered on the top 5 floors of the World Trade Center. On September 11, 2001, 658 of their 960 employees were missing, presumed dead, in the nation's worst terrorist attacks. Tells twin stories' the saga of the ravaged business and surviving employees, and an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OUTSummary: The rebuilding Ground Zero is the most architecturally, politically, and emotionally complex construction project in recent American history. The struggle to develop these 16 acres of 'sacred' land has encompassed 12 years, 19 government agencies, and over $20 billion. Aside from the engineering challenges, various constituencies - politicians, developers, architects, insurers, local residents,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2014
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Kalman, Maira.
Summary: A fireboat, launched in 1931, is retired after many years of fighting fires along the Hudson River, but is saved from being scrapped and then called into service again on September 11, 2001.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2002
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE 974.7 KALCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KALDwyer, Jim
Summary: New York Times reporters Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn rely on hundreds of interviews; thousands of pages of oral histories; and phone, e-mail, and emergency radio transcripts. They cross a bridge of voices to go inside the infernos, seeing cataclysm and heroism, one person at a time, to tell the affecting, authoritative saga of the men and women -- the 12,000 who escaped and the 2,749 who perished...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 974.7 DWYSummary: It was a morning like any other, until the unthinkable made it a day we would never forget. On 9/11 and the following days the footage from 27 filmmakers recorded what they saw throughout the city.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SEVGraff, Garrett M.
Summary: "Over the last eighteen years, much has been written and said about the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the profound impact they had on America and the world. But those names, stories, and memories have never before been collected in one place to tell the full, 360-degree story of what happened that day, and in the days after."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 GRASummary: Focusing on a group of New York City volunteers, the relationships they formed among themselves and with the rescue and recovery workers they cared for, the film creates an exuberant, vivid and moving portrait of the Ground Zero community--as it was during the recovery effort at the World Trade Center site, and as it continues today in the life-changing relationships formed there.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Eleventh Hour Films 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NINFriend, David
Summary: Tells the stories behind the photographs of 9/11, discusses the controversy over whether the images are exploitative or redemptive, and shows how photographs help us witness, grieve, and understand the unimaginable.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 FRISummary: Shortly after noon on September 11, 2001, retired FDNY firefighter Mike Lennon arrived at the devastation of the World Trade Centers. After two weeks of digging, first for survivors and then for remains, he grabbed his camera and began interviewing every firehouse that had lost men. An interview done prior to 9/11 with John Satore, a firefigher who died at the WTC, leads to a flood of memories...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard Cinema 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BRODwyer, Jim
Summary: Of the millions of words written about September 11, 2001, most were told from the outside looking in. "New York Times" reporters Dwyer and Flynn have taken the opposite and far more revealing-approach, capturing the little-known stories of the nearly 12,000 ordinary people who took extraordinary steps to save themselves and others. They tell the dramatic and moving account of the struggle for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2006
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 974.7 DWYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 DWYRinaldi, Tom.
Summary: One Sunday morning before church, when Welles Crowther was a young boy, his father gave him a red handkerchief for his back pocket. Welles kept it with him that day, and just about every day to come; it became a fixture and his signature... When the Twin Towers fell, Welles’s parents had no idea what happened to him. In the unbearable days that followed, they came to accept that he would...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CROWTHER, WELLES RINSummary: Eleven filmmakers from eleven countries reflect on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in short films each lasting 11 minutes, 9 seconds and 1 frame. Samīrā Makhmalbāf presents a female teacher, at an Afghani refugee camp in Iran, organizing the children for a minute's silence; meanwhile the adults express fears of an American bombardment. Claude Lelouch presents the tale of a World Trade...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Empire Pictures 2002
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SEPKeegan, William
Summary: An operations commander at the World Trade Center site documents the nine-month period after the September 11 attacks during which he and the surviving members of his department participated in the recovery efforts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 KEEDeFede, Jim
Summary: Shares the experiences of the citizens of Gander, Newfoundland, who were hosts to the more than six thousand passengers of thirty-eight U.S.-bound jetliners forced to land there in the wake of the September 11th attacks.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Regan Books 2002
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.164 DEFCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.8 DEFCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem DefedeO'Reilly, Bill
Summary: "As the World Trade Center buildings collapsed, the Pentagon burned, and a small group of passengers fought desperately to stop a third plane from completing its deadly flight plan, America went on war footing. Killing The Killers narrates America's intense global war against extremists who planned and executed not only the 9/11 attacks, but hundreds of others in America and around the world,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022