Movie Description:
When Dick Wolf, producer of theNBC series Law & Order, began filming a reality-TV pilot about a New York City police squad, no one could have knownthat terrorists would claim thelives offourteen of the men in that unit on September 11, 2001. Joseph Vigiano, a highly decoratedmember of NYPD Emergency Services Squad 3, died in the World Trade Center, alongwith his older brother, John, Jr., a firefighter with Bedford-Stuyvesant`sLadder 132. They both rushed tothe scene as soon as the first building was struck and werestill helping people evacuate when the towers collapsed.The footage that had been shot for Wolf`s pilot is the basis for this Academy Award-winning Documentary. Twin Towers follows Joe`s Harlem-based rescueteam as they go on raids and investigatehomicides, and includesinterviews with their families,news footage and home videos to tell a story of dedication,heroism and the American spiritthat defines us as a people and a nation.
