A year after the Sept. 11 attacks, all sorts of retrospective documentaries have been made in an effort to gleen an answer to the devastation that changed history.
Here in Taiwan, documentaries from the BBC, WGBH and CBS will also be shown. Beginning this week on Public TV Service (PTS), there will be more than 10 English-language documentaries exploring the incident from different sources and perspectives.
Today at 10pm there will be a documentary by Masuda Sultan, a New York-based Afghani filmmaker who returned to her family in Afghanistan and spent three months with them. With the idea of supporting American's efforts to fight terrorism, she ended up herself trying to escape the US' bombing. In the end, 19 of her family members were killed. The documentary is intensely critical of the US attacks on Afghanistan and many television stations in the US only screened parts of the film to avoid controversy. On PTS, the film will be screen in its entirety.
On Sept. 11th, PTS will screen a two-hour special program produced by CBS's 60 Minutes. The Day that Changed America, which will be broadcast in the US on Sept. 8, will be hosted by senior 60 Minutes host Morley Safer. He will talk with New York fire department chiefs, who lost 343 of their their members in the collapsed twin towers. Safer will also visit a small town in New Jersey, which lost many of its residents in the disaster.
Beginning Monday Sept. 9 until Sept. 16, at 11pm will be a series of five documentaries, including A History of the Twin Towers, which talks about the buildings from an architectural perspective, and From the Ashes, which sees 10 New York-based artists discuss their ideas about the terrorist attacks. Fighting Aviation Terror/9-11, which will be screened on Sept. 12, is about new ideas in aviation safety amid the escalated fear of terrorist attack. And on Sept. 16 will be Afghanistan: The Taliban Years.
The last of the documentaries, at 10pm on Sept. 17th, is a BBC-produced special, Here Is New York, which will introduce the many photo exhibitions after the disaster that try to explore the impact and healing effects of images after a devastating disaster.
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