In Memoriam: New York City (2002)

Can HBO do any wrong? Another stellar documentary from the network that brought us the great "Capturing the Friedmans"."In Memoriam" is thought-provoking and brings a viewer to tears all over again. Contains some incredible footage not seen elsewhere, including two unbelievable shots of the planes striking the towers. Also contains some new coverage of Guiliani's actions on the day of the attack - love him or hate him the city couldn't have asked for a better leader that day, and the footage bears this out. There is also some disturbing content (not that most of it isn't) of bodies falling from the towers, but nothing gratuitous, just enough to provide full coverage of what happened that dreadful day. Don't think you've seen all the 9/11 coverage if you haven't seen this. Just great.

I first saw this moving documentary on the one year anniversary of 9-11, and I have decided to make it a tradition to only watch this movie every 9-11 as a way of personally reflecting on the tragedy. This documentary had me in tears a number of times, especially during interviews with the staff of Mayor Guilliani (one of whom lost her firefighter husband when one of the towers collapsed). Scenes from the funerals of the victims of 9-11 were especially gut-wrenching, but necessary. If you want a good way to remember and reflect on 9-11 without in a meaningful way, I would definitely suggest this movie.

Another disturbing documentary about the World Trade Center tragedy.It's really sad-I cried when I saw poor people jumping out from both Twin Towers.The film is full of emotions-there's sadness,pain and anger.Why in our world there's need for terrorism and death?Why can't we live in peace all together?

When I first heard about this HBO documentary, I vowed to never watch it. It simply sounded very exploitive and tacky. However, it was anything but. In fact I think this doc was better than the one done by CBS earlier this year. The HBO one chose to portray the events through mainly music and imagery. There was no narration, unlike the CBS one. Mayor Guiliani provided commentary and the standard interviews were done with survivors, victim's families, etc, and also a lot of taped footage of bystanders' reactions. It was beautifully done. The music was so perfect and so perfectly timed it really added the right emotional depth. This documentary wasn't exploitive at all. Yes, they showed images and photos of people jumping to their deaths from the burning WTC towers and of a jumper's body on the ground, but their lack of sugarcoating any of the events was a good decision. I felt they had to show everything as it happened. They were careful to erase any details that might give away the jumpers' identities. This was a very tragic and very historic event, and you can't sugarcoat history. It is no different than showing all the images from Pearl Harbor. I would recommend this to anyone interested and give it a 10/10.