CBS to air '9/11' to mark fifth anniversary of attacks

CBS to air '9/11' to mark fifth anniversary of attacks

CBS

MUMBAI: On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, US broadcaster CBS will re-air the the Multi-Award Winning Program 9/11 on 10 September.

It will be updated to include new interviews and footage with many of the firefighters featured in the original presentation.

The show is an insider's account of the World Trade Center attack. The eyewitness story, which has aired twice before on CBS, has new interviews with many of the firefighters who were featured in the original program, discussing how their lives, families and the world have changed in the five years since the tragedy.

Two-time Oscar winner Robert De Niro returns as host of the programme, taking viewers back to Ground Zero five years later.

As with the previous airings, the broadcast of 9/11 will include information throughout the programme about how viewers can contribute to the Uniformed Firefighters Association Scholarship Fund to benefit all firefighters' families. Due to the sensitive content and graphic language that appears in parts of the program, the broadcast also will include both audio and visual warnings to viewers, as well as an introduction by De Niro alerting viewers to the content of the programme.

On Sept. 11, the Naudets and Hanlon were in lower Manhattan shooting a documentary on the Engine 7, Ladder 1 firefighters when Jules suddenly heard a roar from above and turned his camera upward. In doing so, he captured the only known video of the first plane striking the World Trade Center.

Camera still rolling, Jules followed the firefighters into the heart of what would soon be known as Ground Zero. Gedeon also rushed to the scene with members of Ladder 1. Over the next several hours, the brothers captured extraordinary video unlike any broadcast since, including 75 minutes of footage from inside the North Tower as the rescue effort was underway and dramatic scenes of escape in the minutes before the building collapsed.