Flight 93

Although al-Qaida terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners on September 11, 2001, only three reached their intended targets. United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757 that departed late from Newark to San Francisco, crash-landed near Pittsburgh instead of becoming a weapon against the White House ...more

This tight, no-frills TV docudrama bears many similarities to United 93, the feature film that reached theaters a few months after its premiere. It unfolds in real time and splits its focus between the passengers and crew of the doomed aircraft, their families on the ground, the air-traffic and airline personnel who watched the hijacking unfold, and the rural Pennsylvanians who saw the crash. Unlike the later film, however, Flight 93 uses professional actors rather than unknowns and benefited ...more