List of cultural references to the September 11 attacks explained

This list of cultural references to the September 11 attacks and to the post-9/11 socio political climate, includes works of art, music, books, poetry, comics, theater, film, and television.

Art and design

Biology

Classical music

See also: List of songs about the September 11 attacks.

Film

International

North America

Video, television, and theatrical release: documentaries

Video, television, and theatrical release: feature films

Released Title DirectorComments
2017 9/11 Martin Guigui based on the play Elevator by John Patrick Carson.
2006 The 9/11 Commission Report Leigh Scott based upon the 9/11 Commission Report.
2018 12 Strong based on the first soldiers sent into Afghanistan after 9/11.
2002 25th Hour set in post-9/11 New York and puts Ground Zero in the background of a pivotal scene.
2007 A Broken Sole Antony Marsellis a trilogy of 2007 American short films that use 9/11 as a backdrop.
2012 Airborne independent film about a hijacked airliner. The film introduces its story by pretending since 9/11 there would be a so-called "Firelight Protocol" which had been "designed to protect those on the ground".
2014 American Sniper 9/11 coverage is shown on TV.
2010 The Conspirator about the response to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Critics have cited it as an analogy to the post-9/11 atmosphere.[9] [10]
2011 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close based on the book of the same name that depicts the September 11 attacks and a family's experience in the aftermath.
2006 A Few Days in September about a CIA agent with advanced intelligence of the September 11 attacks.
2006 Flight 93 television film directed by that aired on A&E.
2004 The Hamburg Cell a television film based on Ziad Jarrah, a non-religious and westernized Lebanese who falls into a group of radical Muslims in Hamburg, Germany, and eventually becomes United Airlines 93's hijacker pilot.
2018 The Looming Tower television miniseries for Hulu.
2007 Reign Over Me about a man dealing with the loss of his family on 9/11.
2010 Remember Me The attack on the World Trade Center serves as the film's climax and twist ending; the film does not show the attacks, but rather relies on audiences realising what's about to happen.
2019 The Report based on the investigation of the CIA's use of torture following 9/11.
2004Tiger Cruise DuwayneDunhamA Disney Original Channel Movie that depicts a fictional account of the USS Constellation (CV-64) 2001 Tiger Cruise. Follows a young girl, her friends, and their military family members from September 9 to September 14. Helped explain 9/11 to children.
2006 United 93 based on the events of United Airlines Flight 93.
2008 W. about George W. Bush.
2006 World Trade Center based on the rescue of John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno.
2021 Worth about the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.
2012 Zero Dark Thirty the film opens with calls from people in the towers.

Middle East, South Asia, and diasporas

Video, television, and theatrical release: documentaries

Video, television, and theatrical release: feature films

Released Title DirectorComments
2007 AmericanEast an American drama about Arab-Americans living in Post-9/11 Los Angeles.
2009 Amreeka an American/Canadian independent film that documents the lives of a Palestinian American family and their experiences in Post-9/11 suburban Chicago.
2008 The Baby Doll Night Adel Adeeb an Egyptian film set in Cairo post-9/11.
2003 Bandhak an American film that explores the theme of racism against South Asian Americans post-9/11.
2007 Brick Lane Sarah Gavron a British film that tells the story of Nazneen, a Bengali who grew up in Bangladesh. It follows her experiences after she moves to London before, during, and after 9/11.
2006 Hope and a Little Sugar an Indian film that explores the impact of the post 9/11 atmosphere on a Sikh family and their Muslim friend.
2011 I Am Singh an Indian film about the murder of Ranveer Singh's younger brother (who was living in the United States when it happened) as a result of the post 9/11 climate.
2006 Just Your Average Arab Raouf Zaki a 2006 American film in which "Arab-American characters meet in the storage room of a convenience store where they take an 'Arab American Survival Guide post 9/11' class."[18] [19]
2007 Khuda Kay Liye a Pakistani film that tells the story of three Pakistanis and their lives before and after 9/11 in regards to the after-effects to Muslim Americans from the 9/11 reactions.
2009 Kurbaan an Indian film that tells the story of Avantika Ahuja and Ehsaan Khan in India and the United States Post-9/11.
2004 Madhoshi Anil Sharma an Indian film that is about Anupama Kaul whose sister is killed during 9/11.
2010 My Name Is Khan an Indian film that is a Bildungsroman of the life of Rizwan Khan. It begins with his childhood in Mumbai and progresses to his later years living in the United States before, during and after the events of 9/11 in regards to the after-effects to Muslim Americans from the 9/11 reactions.
2009 New York an Indian film that tells the story of Samir, Maya, and Omar. They are three New York college students whose lives are changed by 9/11 and its aftermath.
2006 The Road to Guantanamo a British docudrama about British Pakistani and British Bangladeshi young men who were impacted by the Post-9/11 climate.
2010 Tere Bin Laden an Indian film that is a comedy about journalist Ali Hassan living in Pakistan. Due to his desperation to migrate to the U.S., he makes a fake Osama bin Laden video using a look-alike, and sells it to TV channels.
2004 Yasmin a German/British film set in a British Pakistani community in parts of Keighley, West Yorkshire, England before and after 9/11.
2006 Yun Hota Toh Kya Hota an Indian film that tells the story of a group of people from India who were aboard the ill-fated flights that crashed into the WTC and the Pentagon on 9/11.
2013 Viswaroopam an Indian film that tells the story of India's foreign intelligence service Research and Analysis Wing's participation in America's War on Terror after the 9/11 attacks perpetrated by Al-Qaeda agents.

Internet

Literature and poetry

Fiction and non-fiction

Australia

Europe

North America

Poetry

Television

Theater

Video games

See also

External links

a lengthy list of September 11-related documentaries. The site also has lists of books, songs, theater and works in other media inspired by September 11.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition. 27 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20141018113058/http://www.wtcsitememorial.org/ent/entI=832166.html. 18 October 2014. live.
  2. Web site: Official website. 911Flipbook.com.
  3. News: Artist's painting 'Golden Angels' is a tribute to 9/11, a 10-year project . Richardson . Clem . New York Daily News . September 9, 2011 . February 22, 2012.
  4. Web site: 07. Save Manhattan 03. Mounir Fatmi. 23 January 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20111230004427/http://mounirfatmi.com/2installation/savemanhattan03.html. 30 December 2011.
  5. Web site: 32. Save Manhattan. Gregory Buchakjian. Gregory Buchakjian. Mounir Fatmi. 23 January 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20111211111110/http://www.mounirfatmi.com/2video/savemanhattan.html. 11 December 2011.
  6. Book: September, a A History Painting by Gerhard Richter. 2010. 2016-05-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20160701064604/https://www.gerhard-richter.com/en/literature/monographs/september-a-history-painting-by-gerhard-richter-290. 2016-07-01. live.
  7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip1U37_qemw Interview with Robert Gulya
  8. Web site: Retired Site | PBS. https://web.archive.org/web/20080110143828/http://www.pbs.org/wnet/heroes/. 2008-01-10. .
  9. Web site: 'The Conspirator' is a Compelling Allegory. 27 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402121120/http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/4/19/the-conspirator-review/. 2 April 2015. live.
  10. News: 'The Conspirator' is a post-9/11 message movie. Are you as tired of post-9/11 message movies as I am?. Owen Gleiberman. April 23, 2011. February 3, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120513021203/http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/04/23/are-you-tired-of-9-11-message-movies/. May 13, 2012. live.
  11. Web site: Arabs and Terrorism - The Project. arabsandterrorism.com. 1 August 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20060331215225/http://www.arabsandterrorism.com/. 31 March 2006. live.
  12. Web site: Arabs and Terrorism (2007). 18 September 2007. IMDb. 27 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20170210154712/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1757672/. 10 February 2017. live.
  13. Web site: Arabs and Terrorism: New York Times . 2017-02-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130616200646/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/410408/Arabs-and-Terrorism/overview . 2013-06-16 . Movies & TV Dept. . . Nathan Southern . 2013 . dead .
  14. Web site: Divided We Fall Official Website . 2012-02-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120213113851/http://www.dwf-film.com/ . 2012-02-13 . live .
  15. Web site: Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath (2006). tjwaccountmail. 14 September 2006. IMDb. 27 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20160501065818/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0867599/. 1 May 2016. live.
  16. Web site: Stand Up: Muslim-American Comics Come of Age (2009). goleafs84. 3 April 2009. IMDb. 27 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20160330053020/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1016022/. 30 March 2016. live.
  17. Web site: America at a Crossroads . Stand Up: Muslim American Comics Come of Age - PBS. . 27 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402090830/http://www.pbs.org/weta/crossroads/about/show_standup_film.html. 2 April 2015. live.
  18. Web site: Just Your Average Arab - A Film by Raouf Zaki. 27 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150214082737/http://justyouraveragearab.com/about.html. 14 February 2015. live.
  19. Web site: Just Your Average Arab (2006). 27 March 2015. IMDb. 27 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150716034141/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1303869/. 16 July 2015. live.
  20. Web site: World Trade Towers - IBWiki.
  21. Web site: Talk:World Trade Towers - IBWiki.
  22. Web site: Official Website for the Titanic truth movement .
  23. Web site: There is no 9/11 conspiracy you morons .
  24. Web site: Review: Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie. Maya Jaggi. Maya Jaggi. The Guardian. 7 March 2009. 27 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150403230053/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/mar/07/burnt-shadows-kamila-shamsie-review. 3 April 2015. live.
  25. Web site: Review: A Disorder Peculiar to the Country by Ken Kalfus. Mark Lawson. The Guardian. 14 October 2006. 27 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150403151244/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/oct/14/featuresreviews.guardianreview17. 3 April 2015. live.
  26. Web site: A Disorder Peculiar to the Country. New York Magazine Book Review. 6 July 2006 . 27 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20160305071742/http://nymag.com/arts/books/reviews/17563/. 5 March 2016. live.
  27. Web site: Forever: A Novel . 2011-09-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110809112139/http://www.petehamill.com/foreverone.html . 2011-08-09 .
  28. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/09/RVEH1L1JT7.DTL Patriot Acts Review
  29. Web site: That Page Was Not Found. 27 March 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120918011639/http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6631146.html?industryid=47112. 18 September 2012.
  30. Web site: Evergreen Review. 27 March 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402121638/http://www.evergreenreview.com/128/review_us_of_banana.shtml. 2 April 2015.
  31. Web site: 'Zero' sums up our paranoid moment. USA Today. 27 March 2015.
  32. Web site: . . . With Both Hands. 5 October 2010. 27 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150402124704/http://hickeysite.blogspot.com/2010/10/seamus-heaney-anything-can-happen-2004.html. 2 April 2015. live.
  33. Web site: Photograph from September 11. 27 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150403190626/http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178603. 3 April 2015. live.
  34. Web site: Threepenny: Bidart, Curse. 27 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150222185941/http://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/bidart_sp02.html. 22 February 2015. live.
  35. Web site: Typo Magazine Issue Two. 27 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150401020439/http://www.typomag.com/issue02/000013.html. 1 April 2015. live.
  36. http://citemag.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/HindCite_Howard_Cite52.pdf Fallacies of Wonder
  37. Web site: Books. Penguin Random House Canada. 27 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20140517152827/http://www.mcclelland.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780771016622. 17 May 2014. live.
  38. Web site: Mizna: Prose, Poetry, and Art Exploring Arab America. 27 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20120402145919/http://www.mizna.org/vol8issue1/index.html. 2 April 2012. live.
  39. Web site: The Hudson Remembers. 5 April 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150412171838/http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poem/item/18176/auto/0/THE-HUDSON-REMEMBERS. 12 April 2015. live.
  40. Web site: This poem by Sharon Olds from Stag's Leap. 15 April 2013. 5 April 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150415142318/http://paulbogaards.tumblr.com/post/48061533803/this-poem-by-sharon-olds-from-stags-leap. 15 April 2015. live.
  41. Web site: Out of the Blue. 5 April 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150412024229/http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poems/out-blue-12. 12 April 2015. live.
  42. Web site: The Names. 5 October 2011. 5 April 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150411094741/http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-names-3. 11 April 2015. live.
  43. Web site: Last Words. 5 April 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150924033251/http://www.igreens.org.uk/last_words.htm. 24 September 2015. live.
  44. Book: Books. 9781466817906. 21 April 2020. Seidel. Frederick. 28 May 2013. Farrar, Straus and Giroux .
  45. Web site: Friedlander. Whitney. 9/11 is becoming part of history. Want proof? Turn on your TV. Los Angeles Times. September 11, 2019. November 11, 2020.
  46. Web site: Haque. Ahsan. Family Guy: "It Takes a Village Idiot and I Married One" Review. IGN. May 14, 2007. December 19, 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20111221204154/http://tv.ign.com/articles/788/788100p1.html. December 21, 2011. live.
  47. Web site: Dealing with a Nation's Trauma. Academia.edu. Tobias. Steiner. May 18, 2013.
  48. Web site: The Lone Gunmen - Series - Episode List - TV Tango.
  49. Web site: 13 Theatre Works That Responded to 9/11 | Playbill.
  50. Web site: Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - Recent Tragic Events - 9/28/03. 27 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150924113017/http://www.talkinbroadway.com/ob/09_28_03.html. 24 September 2015. live.
  51. Web site: Truth Serum Blues a Play by Ismail Khalidi and Bassam Jarbawi - Illinois Humanities Council. Illinois Humanities Council. 27 March 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120326140036/http://www.prairie.org/events/14662/truth-serum-blues-play-ismail-khalidi-and-bassam-jarbawi. 26 March 2012.
  52. Madelena Gonzales and Helene Laplace-Claverie, editors, "Minority Theatre on the Global Stage: Challenging Paradigms from the Margins, 2012.
  53. Hayford, Justin Review: Good Morning Gitmo . Chicago Reader. Retrieved on November 15, 2014.
  54. News: Westerfield. Joe. 'Come From Away,' an uplifting 9/11 musical, opens on Broadway. April 1, 2018. Newsweek. March 13, 2017. en. https://web.archive.org/web/20170314125617/http://www.newsweek.com/uplifting-911-musical-come-away-broadway-567259. March 14, 2017. live.
  55. News: Nathoo. Zulekha. Come From Away wins Tony Award for best direction of a musical. April 1, 2018. CBC News. June 11, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20180418164620/http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/tony-awards-come-from-away-1.4155324. April 18, 2018. live.
  56. News: 'Disgusting' new virtual reality simulator allows players to experience horror of 9/11 from inside North Tower. New York Daily News. Nancy. Dillon. November 2, 2015. May 29, 2023.
  57. Web site: Fail Video Game Bin Laden VS USA Hand Held Toy Review by Mike Mozart of JeepersMedia . December 22, 2009 . DeadlineLIVE . December 23, 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091226232456/http://deadlinelive.info/2009/12/22/fail-video-game-bin-laden-vs-usa-hand-held-toy-review-by-mike-mozart-of-jeepersmedia/ . December 26, 2009 . dead .
  58. Book: Halter, Ed . From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games . September 27, 2009 . 1 . June 2006 . 2006 . Thunder's Mouth Press . New York . 1-56025-681-8 . 68918463 . cp3p6rfKdK0C . Part 4: The Dream War . https://books.google.com/books?id=cp3p6rfKdK0C .
  59. Web site: 9/11 Video Game Upsets Otherwise Docile Residents Of Brooklyn, Chelsea . Jessica . June 2, 2005 . Gawker . December 28, 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121006021311/http://gawker.com/106138/911-video-game-upsets-otherwise-docile-residents-of-brooklyn-chelsea . 2012-10-06.
  60. Web site: Let's get hitek . 8 January 2017 .
  61. Web site: Terrifying 9.11 - the Cutting Room Floor .
  62. Web site: Metal Slug .