United 93

United 93 is the first movie about the events of 9/11. Although the focus is the 44 people who board the United Airlines Flight 93 from Newark to San Francisco, four of whom are hijackers, the film cleverly sets the horror and bravery of this particular flight in the context of the whole day of terror. As two planes crashed into the World Trade Centre and another into the Pentagon, the citizens on board United Airways Flight 93 had to decide whether to sit tight or try to take back the plane. Writer/director Paul Greengrass sifts through the facts and theories from the 9/11 Commission to present what he thinks happened next in United 93.

Matthew Benton