9/11

9/11 (2002) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM. French brothers Jules and Gédéon Naudet came to New York to film a piece about a rookie firefighter and ended up recording the morning that changed everything.

It begins as Tony's story — the youngest probationer at a Manhattan firehouse, still finding his feet. The camera trails the company through ordinary shifts, catching downtime and locker-room jokes. Then, on a routine street call, the lens tilts upward for what became the only known footage of the first plane striking the World Trade Center. From there the crew is inside the North Tower, amid smoke, falling debris and people who keep doing their jobs anyway. Robert De Niro narrates.

Shot from within, with no staging and no swelling score to push you, the film stands among the most direct records of that day, and that is exactly what it was honored for. It is hard to sit through, but it is testimony rather than spectacle. For anyone who wants the record without gloss. Stream 9/11 (2002) online on iFILM.