Forrest Sawyer

Behind the Terror

Forrest Sawyer

In the same week of the 9/11 attacks on New York, Washington, DC and Philadelphia, a special team of filmmakers worked night and day for five days to produce a two-hour special that aired in a simulcast without commercial interruption. The goal was to explain the tragedy that had just occurred and to shine a spotlight on what seemed to be America's newly-discovered enemy, Terrorism.