TURNING POINT: 9/11 AND THE WAR ON TERROR (2021). REVIEW BY SANDRA HARRIS. ©
TURNING POINT: 9/11 AND THE WAR ON TERROR. (2021) DIRECTED BY BRIAN KNAPPENBERGER. A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY REVIEWED BY SANDRA HARRIS. © I binge-watched this five-part Netflix series yesterday, in honour of the day that was in it: the twentieth anniversary of the September 11 th terrorist attacks, probably the biggest assault on America since Pearl Harbour. For much of it, I was aware that I was practically holding my breath, it was so tense, especially the bits dealing with the lead-up to the attacks on the morning of Tuesday, the eleventh of September, 2001. Lower Manhattan was going about its business as usual on what has been described as a ‘beautiful Fall morning.’ Shortly before nine am, an ordinary commercial passenger plane crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Centre building, one of the legendary Twin Towers that formed such a familiar part of the skyline in New York. The building immediately caught fire. What was going on? Had the poor pilot had a heart attack ...