Product description Modern Marvels World From the Back Cover For a time, its towers were the tallest buildings on earth, and The World Trade Center-an engineering marvel-came to symbolize American prosperity and strength. Recalling a more innocent era, this new production from THE HISTORY CHANNEL was filmed just months before the towers' tragic demise and subsequently enriched with heartfelt reflection from host Harry Smith. "World Trade Center: In Memoriam" charts the history of the towers' construction, revealing the controversies, decitsions and innovations that surrounded the project, and-through interviews with those who proudly and ambitiously dreamt, designed and built the complex-examines the monument as both architectural achievement and cultural icon. What emerges is not ony a tribute to a building, but an inspiring and intimate story of the birth and growth of an American symbol.
N**2
Historic & Educational
This shows just how & why the World Trade Center was made. It's a educational & touching inside view of these Historic & life changing Towers.
R**D
A beautifull and interesting documentary of the wtc.
This documentary shows every aspect of the World Trade Center it's (short?) history, from building it up from the concrete to the Trade Center its window washing machine, all the info about the Trade Center is on this tape.Some people on the documentary are missing or dead, and some things people say in this documentary can be verry shocking. (especialy after Sept. 11th)But in conclusion, this documentary shows you the World Trade Center (and it's people) within all it's glory.It's too bad the WTC complex isn't going to be rebuild, those towers where icons of freedom and culture, if the statue of liberty was attacked and taken down, there would have been no question it was going to be rebuild......the same thing should happen with the twin towers. (the entire wtc complex actually)
J**M
Great video!
Great documentary talking more about the construction of the towers and the initial reason for the construction in the 1st place. One of my favorites.
A**R
Review
Like the movie
J**R
Very good disc on the towers
Very good disc on the towers. Its only 55 minutes but it ranges from before they were built to the day they came down. My only complaint is no mention of windows of the world. Other than that A+ all the way. I wish it were longer. :) so remember the towers before 2001. I know thats how I remember them.
L**Y
Historical analysis
My husband., Dr W Gene Corley, provided many of the opinions of the collaspe
J**K
WE WILL NOT FORGET 9/11/2001
OUR NATION HAS GOTTON STRONGER NOW WE NEED TO BEEF UP OUR ARMED FORCES AS OUR CAPACITY IN THE 50'S THROUGH THE EARILY 80'S WE HAD A LARGE NUMBER SO WHO EVER BE COMES NEXT PRESIDENT NEEDS TO GET WITH IT AFTER 2001 THINGSAROUND THE HAS CHANGED........
A**R
this is a sad, tragic day in our history
It more then met my expectations, this is a sad, tragic day in our history.
M**M
An astounding historical record.
This is a most fascinating documentary that focuses mainly on the Twin Towers of the, never to be forgotten, World Trade Center in New York. The feature itself was produced some months before 9/11, and there are interviews with people who have been missing since, and the DVD reaffirms this fact following some editing after the tragedy. What I personally thought made this documentary truly remarkable, was that it focuses on the Twin Towers for what they were, an incredible feat of engineering and an important feature in New York City. The feature focuses mainly on the design and construction of the North and South towers' and then goes on to mention the bombing of February 26th 1993. What the DVD also does, is every ten to fifteen minutes, the viewer recieves a summary from Harry Smith of the History Channel, but this can get slightly annoying as it breaks up the feature and is reminiscent of numerous advert breaks. One further thing that I found to be quite confusing, is that the documentary does not really follow a chronological order. Instead, the first five minutes are about the technical systems that were employed to supply the World Trade Center, the statistics of this are amazing, although, then the feature goes back to the mid 1960's and discusses in most part, the conception and construction of the towers. This makes up most of the DVD and at the end, the February 1993 bombing of the Trade Center is discussed but I felt that this part was somewhat rushed, so much so that it did not come across as a significant occurance in the life of the World Trade Center complex. Furthermore, the feature only focuses on the Twin Towers and unfortunately, it does not mention the other five buildings that also made up the World Trade Center, which I felt to be most unfortunate, as these buildings are often overlooked when it comes to the history of the complex. One final thing that I feel needs to be mentioned is that this feature is only just over fifty minutes long, with the additon of a five minute interview with a historian of the World Trade Center which reveals his thoughts on the disaster. Overall, this documetary proved very interesting and I feel that it should be purchased by anybody with an interest in these buildings before they became symbolic of tragedy and death. However, this feature is only fifty minutes in length and therefore it is not a comprehensive history of the World Trade Center, despite this, it was still very enjoyable.
P**0
Brilliantly
Fascinating documentary on the World Trade Center.
A**R
Four Stars
Good overall documentary about the building of the WTC filmed just months before the tragic September Day.
M**A
Five Stars
Very well done & informative
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