Why the Towers Fell - An Exclusive Investigation into the Collapse of the World Trade Center

Starring:Jack Fortune
Director: Garfield Kennedy, Larry Klein (IV)
Studio: Wgbh Boston
Product Type: DVD

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For most people the image of the collapse of the World Trade Center Towers on September 11, 2001, was not only a scene of unforgettable horror, it was a moment of unimaginable consequence. Within days, NOVA began following a blue ribbon team of forensic engineers as they began searching for clues that would tell them why the towers fell. This moving and informative documentary features interviews with survivors and rescue personnel who recount the buildings' last moments and their harrowing journeys to safety, interweaving these stories with the insights of some of the leading structural engineers in the world to explain exactly what happened on that fateful day. Why the Towers Fell takes viewers through the process by which the investigative team came to understand the how's and why's of one of America's greatest tragedies. From a detailed examination of the building's original design to the relentless process of combing scrap steel yards and Ground Zero itself for evidence, this was one of the most extensive and difficult disaster investigations ever undertaken. The team tested building materials, calculated the role of the jet fuel in the fire, estimated the speed of the aircraft and the damage to the building's core, and they analyzed the effectiveness of the escape and fire protection systems. The conclusions they reached will certainly influence the building of future skyscrapers for years to come.

Why the Towers Fell - An Exclusive Investigation into the Collapse of the World Trade Center
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Why the Towers Fell - An Exclusive Investigation into the Collapse of the World Trade Center
Starring: Jake Pauls , Matt Komorowski , Jan Demczur , Sal D'Agostino , and Matthys Levy
Director: Garfield Kennedy , and Larry Klein (IV)
Manufacturer: Wgbh Boston
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ASIN: B00006ADG4
Release Date: 2002-06-18

Description

For most people the image of the collapse of the World Trade Center Towers on September 11, 2001, was not only a scene of unforgettable horror, it was a moment of unimaginable consequence. Within days, NOVA began following a blue ribbon team of forensic engineers as they began searching for clues that would tell them why the towers fell. This moving and informative documentary features interviews with survivors and rescue personnel who recount the buildings' last moments and their harrowing journeys to safety, interweaving these stories with the insights of some of the leading structural engineers in the world to explain exactly what happened on that fateful day. Why the Towers Fell takes viewers through the process by which the investigative team came to understand the how's and why's of one of America's greatest tragedies. From a detailed examination of the building's original design to the relentless process of combing scrap steel yards and Ground Zero itself for evidence, this was one of the most extensive and difficult disaster investigations ever undertaken. The team tested building materials, calculated the role of the jet fuel in the fire, estimated the speed of the aircraft and the damage to the building's core, and they analyzed the effectiveness of the escape and fire protection systems. The conclusions they reached will certainly influence the building of future skyscrapers for years to come.

Customer Reviews:

Don't Listen To The Conspiracy Nuts!.......2006-12-23

This is a great program. It explains in purely technical terms what happened to the buildings and why on 9/11. Sometimes the only way to come at such an enormous tragedy is to take just one piece of it. In its own oblique, indirect way, this is one of the most poignant documents I've ever seen about that fateful day. By leaving emotion out of it, it actually invites more emotion. The interview with the building's architect is the perfect example - he does not break down, or play for our sympathy, but you can see in his eyes that he will be haunted by his decisions for the rest of his days. Like all such things, it's easy to see now with 20/20 hindsight all the factors that created disaster.

The people on here slamming this and going on about their "research" (yeah right) are, I'm guessing, part of the growing number of idiots who have decided to take this terrible event and twist it into a ridiculous conspiracy. This really bothers me, and I'm as left-wing liberal anti-George Bush as they come. These people are just sad. The pancaking of the floors is not a "theory", it's a fact we all saw with our own eyes in real time. Don't let these people start doing to 9/11, what the holocaust deniers are still doing sixty years on. It's an insult to the dead. Not to mention to our collective intelligence.

In the meantime, if you want to see an excellent documentary breaking down EXACTLY what happened moment by moment, this is the film for you. Personally, it's the only 9/11 doc I want to own. Something about this dispassionate examination of the collapse I find almost as heartbreaking as the sheer loss of life. Let's face it, we mourn those buildings as well as the victims. It's also just good solid HISTORY with a capital H. Ignore the idiots.

Plausible.......2006-12-02

It is interesting to note that the reviewers here rebuking this film are not experts in anything other than their own histrionics and moronic conspiracy theories. NOVA does a good job here.

PLEASE!.......2006-11-09

I watched this movie when I was just starting to research 9/11 and it answered NO questions of why the buildings fell. It gave a bunch of theories and almost everyone interviewed were shocked themselves that the buildings fell and voiced that opinion frequently.
The people that produced this documentary are traitors to America.
INVESTIGATE 9/11!!!

Grifters.......2006-07-23

The value of this NOVA cover up is the connection to the web of lies perpetrated by the US government.
No steel building ever have fallen, on that day 3 fell...all defying the laws of physics.
It is often noted that building 7 was "pulled"...what is not noted is there were already explosives in place.
It's time to jail those responsible....none will be Arabs NOVA should be ashamed to try and foist this ...a piece of the cover up

Pathtic.......2006-07-04

its is all a lie. If the pancake theroy was a fact then how come the engineers of the buidings said it wasn't. Look i the building fell in free fall it must have been demolition. Because
building don't fall like that. 23 fire fighetrs said they head a exploson 5 seconds before the south and north tower fell. And the pancake thery has happend to a few bulings in the world and it was real slow about 1 minute for a 23 storie building to fall. Plus FEMA sucks they didn't know wtc 7 fell and Larry Stilverstine admitted he blew up wtc 7 because it had too many fires face it it was a scam the the towes fell chaching larry wanted 7 billion dollar and Predient bush 1 billion....... i know alot about buildng and if wana see the truth wath loose change 2

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