It’s the one that we find ourselves going back to more than the disaster procedurals of United 93 and World Trade Center, the maudlin melodramas that often treated the event like mournful background Muzak (looking at you, Reign Over Me), even the docs that kept replaying the footage of the planes, the panic, the clouds of dust enveloping downtown after the dual collapses.
And yet, as we look back on the worst terrorist attack on American soil that happened 20 years ago today, it’s Lee’s movie - and his movie alone - that’s arguably stood the test of time.
