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FRONTLINE: Film Audio Track | PBS

America After 9/11

FRONTLINE: Film Audio Track | PBS

FRONTLINE

Pbs, Tv & Film, Wgbh, Documentaries, Frontline

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

"America After 9/11" traces the U.S. response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the devastating consequences that unfolded across four presidencies. This two-hour special offers an epic re-examination of the decisions that changed the world and transformed America. From the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to the January 6 insurrection, "America After 9/11" exposes the legacy of September 11 — and the ongoing challenge it poses for the president and the country.

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0:00.0

Thanks for listening to the Frontline Audio Cast, the enhanced audio version of our documentaries.

0:06.0

We also produce a podcast, the Frontline Dispatch, including a conversation between Frontline Executive Producer Rainy Aronson,

0:14.0

and America After 9-11 Director Michael Kirk, available wherever you get your podcasts.

0:20.0

Right now, here is the America After 9-11 Audio Cast.

0:46.0

I'll be back next week, in the next few decades after 9-11.

0:52.0

In Afghanistan, America's devastating defeat.

0:58.0

The Taliban have taken control of the nation.

1:00.0

And at home, distrust and division.

1:04.0

Four presidents, the decisions, the mistakes, the consequences.

1:10.0

The Frontline is reporting America After 9-11.

1:20.0

Frontline is made possible by contributions to your PBS station from viewers like you.

1:24.0

Thank you. And by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

1:28.0

Major support is provided by the Ford Foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide at fortfoundation.org.

1:38.0

Additional support is provided by the Abrams Foundation, committed to excellence in journalism.

1:44.0

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world, more at Macfound.org.

1:52.0

Park Foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues.

1:57.0

And by the Frontline Journalism Fund, with major support from John and Joanne Hakeler, and additional support from Koo in Patricia, UN, and Suzanne in Mark Colony.

2:07.0

The New York Times, which is the largest in the world, has ever been a major threat to the world.

2:15.0

If you're just joining us, you probably already know the World Trade Center towers, the Twin Towers, the New York landmarks, have collapsed and are gone.

2:25.0

9-11.

2:26.0

This is huge. This is huge.

2:30.0

America at the top.

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