9/11: The Lost Tapes

Newly released audio recordings offer a unique insight and moving perspective on 9/11 and the fateful minutes that changed America forever.

On the morning of the attacks, hundreds of hours of military and air traffic control conversations wereptured on tape painting a chilling and tragic picture of events spiralling inexorably out of control. With events unfolding at breakneck-speed, the tapes reveal in minute-by-minute detail, the chaos and confusion wrought by the attacks.

Revelations include how Air Force fighter jets, scrambled to protect Washington, set out in the wrong direction - ending up 60 miles out across the Atlantic ocean and that permission to shoot down hijacked passenger planes only came through after the last plane crashed.

And while air traffic controllers watched the second plane crash into the World Trade Center tower, fighter jets were still 100 miles away from New York and amid all the confusion it took 39 minutes for the news of United 93's hijack to reach the military.

With testimonies from the people who appear on the tapes, the film vividly conveys the emotion, courage and panic in the voices of air traffic controllers and military personnel whose job it was to protect America as it came under attack.

Channel 4 UK. Originally broadcast April 19, 2012

Flight 175: As the World Watched

Flight 175: As the World Watched covers the final moments of the passengers and crew on board United Airlines Flight 175, which was the second commercial airliner to strike the World Trade Center, impacted with the South Tower, and was the most visually documented (both photographed and filmed) flight during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

First broadcast on The Learning Channel in August 2002. 43 minutes.

The Air Traffic Controllers of 9/11

NBC 52 min. Watch on Google.

Aired on the first anniversary of 9/11. The air traffic controllers in charge of the skies over America on the morning of 9/11 witnessed the nightmare. What these professionals witnessed, even now, is hard to fathom and what they did was extraordinary, unprecedented and a first in aviation history - within four hours from when controllers lost contact with the first airliner they safely cleared the U.S. skies of over 3,000 planes.