9/11: THE FALLING MAN - new documentary - 10pm CBC Newsworld tonight [View All]

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First US showing will be in February, 2007.

http://www.cbc.ca/passionateeyemonday/fallingman/index.html



9/11: THE FALLING MAN

September 11 2001 was a day of many incredible and shocking stories: stories of survivors, stories of heroes. But there was one story that people didn't want to face. The story of the people who began to jump from the World Trade Center just minutes after the first plane hit. Their images were caught on videotape and in photographs, but soon they were never seen again, as if they had never existed.

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NOTE: Disturbing images, discretion advised

Among those pictures is one of the most unforgettable images from 9/11 – a photograph of a falling man, frozen in mid air, his body perfectly parallel with the twin towers of the World Trade Centre. (see above)

The photo ran in newspapers across the world the following day, and should have remained one of the defining images of that terrible event. Instead, it was erased from history.

CBC Newsworld's The Passionate Eye presents the North American premiere of The Falling Man, the story of the ‘jumpers’ of  9/11. It follows the trail of the photographer who nearly lost his life shooting the image; of the citizens who decried it, arguing that it was sensational and exploitative; of the editors who published it and then reluctantly banned it; and the journalist who finally uncovered the falling man’s identity.

The Falling Man confronts this single, harrowing image and helps history to give a proper due to the jumpers of 9/11.

Produced and directed by Henry Singer.