TV Specials Airing In Tribute To The 20th Anniversary Of 9/11
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the tragic terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York City. There are a number of tributes airing tonight and tomorrow. Watch…
NEW YORK, NY – SEPTEMBER 11: The ‘Tribute in Light’ memorial lights up lower Manhattan near One World Trade Center on September 11, 2018 in New York City. The tribute at the site of the World Trade Center towers has been an annual event in New York since March 11, 2002.Throughout the country services are being held to remember the 2,977 people who were killed in New York, the Pentagon and rural Pennsylvania in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
(Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)This year marks the 20th anniversary of the tragic terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York City. There are a number of tributes airing tonight and tomorrow.
Watch these specials on your local stations and paid-streaming services:
20/20: David Muir will review the events of 9/11 (Friday, September 10, 9/8c, ABC) and Diane Sawyer will speak with children who lost parents in the attack. (Friday, September 10, 10/9c, ABC).
Race Against Time: Race Against Time Subtitled “The True Story of the CIA and 9/11,” will include commentary from CIA officials and operatives recounting the events of September 11th. (Friday, September 10, 8/7c, CBS)
Dateline: Lester Holt anchors a special focusing on the families of Flight 93, the hijacked flight that crashed in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, on 9/11 per NBC. (Friday, September 10, 10/9c, NBC)
Rise and Fall: The World Trade Center: Through a unique architectural and engineering lens, “Rise & Fall: The World Trade Center” recounts the "unique structural design" with expert interviews that made the then-tallest buildings in the world possible. The two-hour documentary will understand how the Towers rose and the heart-wrenching collapse. (8 p.m. Sept. 10, History Channel)
9/11: Four Flights: This two-hour special tells the personal narratives of passengers on the four flights (American 11, United 175, American 77, and United 93) that struck the towers on that tragic day. Viewers will hear from the brave passengers, crew, and air traffic controllers who tried to intercept the airliners, per Deadline. (8 p.m. Sept. 11, History Channel)
