What We Watch
Name: Genevieve Terblanche.
Position: senior writer who can feel spring in the air.
I am watching: documentary series 9/11: One Day In America, Sundays on National Geographic (*181) at 21:00 on DStv Streaming.
My take on this show: a lot of what happened in New York on 11 September 2001 has since been blurred by political agendas, hate speech and conspiracy theories. This documentary brings the story back to the victims and survivors of the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. Through six episodes, it tells an incredibly moving, sometimes horrific, minute-by-minute story of what first responders, people in the Twin Towers, families of the victims, and flight control personnel experienced through interviews, film footage, photographs and artefacts.
the Naudet Brothers’ crystal-clear footage of the first plane flying into the North Tower in episode 1. They were making a documentary at one of New York’s firehouses when the attacks happened and hearing
