9/11: Escape from the Towers vs The History of Flight: We Saw It Happen

9/11: Escape from the Towers has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 6/10 for The History of Flight: We Saw It Happen). 9/11: Escape from the Towers is the shorter watch at 1h 26m compared with 1h 29m. The History of Flight: We Saw It Happen is the older of the two (1953 against 2018). Both are documentary, history movies, so they suit a similar mood.

9/11: Escape from the Towers poster9/11: Escape from the Towers2018 VS The History of Flight: We Saw It Happen posterThe History of Flight: We Saw It Happen1953
9/11: Escape from the TowersThe History of Flight: We Saw It Happen
Audience score★ 7.8/10★ 6.0/10
Year20181953
Length1h 26m1h 29m
GenresDocumentary, HistoryDocumentary, History
Country––
Director–Paul W. Fisher
Main cast–Igor Sikorsky, William Boeing Jr., Leroy Grumman, Allan Lockheed Jr., Glenn L. Martin

Synopsis

9/11: Escape from the Towers

Each World Trade Center tower consisted of 110 floors. Each floor has a story. In this two-hour special, survivors from two of those floors, many speaking publicly for the first time, tell their stories. Focusing on one floor in the North Tower and one in the South, this film will provide a never-before-achieved intimacy with what it was really like to be inside the Twin Towers on 9/11.

The History of Flight: We Saw It Happen

This documentary, chronicles the first 50 years of flight, from the Wright Brothers first flight in 1903 to 1953. It includes interviews with an original mechanic who worked in their bicycle shop and a wide range of other pioneers such as Frank Long, Igor Sikorsky, Glen Martin, Alan Lockheed, Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, LeRoy Grumman, Robert Gross Connie and Wellwood Beel.

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