The events of 9/11, 2001 have provided extensive material for documentarians and conspiracy theorists worldwide. Over the weekend I saw World Trade Center, the Oliver Stone film starring Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena. While not a documentary per se, it (along with the earlier film United 93) may be as close as fiction films can come. Notable is Stone's refusal to even suggest conspiracy as he tells the tale of two Port Authority police officers caught in the collapse of the Twin Towers. This from the director of JFK!
In contrast, conspiracy theories about 9/11 abound in the Internet documentary Loose Change, 2nd edition, available courtesy of Google video at their web site, http://www.loosechange911.com/
While the WTC script was based upon hours-upon-hours of interviews with principles and eye-witnesses, LC is another type of documetary...one that raises more questions than it answers and does not hesitate to speculate about possible scenarios.
At the Loose Change web site you can even purchase a T-shirt calling for an investigation of 9/11, and when you do you are pledging to, "do you best to wear it to wear it at Ground Zero on September 11th, 2006." For those of you who may be interested, that is less than a week away!
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