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United 93 (Flight 93) - Khalid Abdalla, Lewis Alsamari, Omar Berdouni, Jamie Harding, Paul Greengrass

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Movie propaganda

On 11 September 2001 four planes were hijacked. Three of them reached their target. This is the story of the fourth.

United 93 (Flight 93) begins on a normal September morning at Newark airport. Crew members prepare for a routine commuter flight to San Francisco. They make safety checks, assign tasks, fuel the plane. Passengers arrive, check in, make last minute calls to colleagues and families before boarding the plane. As the cabin doors are hermetically sealed they all believe that everything is normal. That they are safe from the dangers of a turbulent world. But sitting in four first class seats right next to them is an Al Qaeda cell.

And so as the hijack unfolds, the film moves between the passengers and crew in the air and civilian and military air traffic controllers on the ground as each tries desperately to avert the flight's progress towards the Capitol Building in the heart of Washington DC.

United 93 (Flight 93) will take us through the events of 9/11 as they happen in real time - all the confusion, violence, courage and endurance of a day that changed our lives forever.

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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda

Film terrorism true drama USA September 11 hijack plane crash hero fight airplane aeroplane knife

Persons of interest

Khalid Abdalla .... Ziad Jarrah
Lewis Alsamari .... Saeed Al Ghamdi
Omar Berdouni .... Ahmed Al Haznawi
Jamie Harding .... Ahmed Al Nami
Opal Alladin .... Ceecee Lyles
David Alan Basche .... Todd Beamer
Richard Bekins .... William Cashman
Starla Benford .... Wanda Anita Green
Susan Blommaert .... Jane Folger
Christian Clemenson .... Thomas Burnett
Liza Colón-Zayas .... Waleska Martinez
Lorna Dallas .... Linda Gronlund
Denny Dillon .... Colleen Fraser
Trieste Kelly Dunn .... Deora Frances Bodley
Kate Jennings Grant .... Lauren Catuzzi Grandcolas
Peter Herman .... Jeremy Glick
Tara Hugo .... Kristin White Gould
Marceline Hugot .... Georgine Roes Corrigan
Corey Johnson .... Louis Nacke
Masato Kamo .... Toshiya Kuge
Becky London .... Jean Hoadley Peterson
Peter Marinker .... Andrew Garcia
Jodie Lynne McClintock .... Marion R Britton
Nancy McDoniel .... Lorraine G Bay
Libby Morris .... Hilda Marcin
Simon Poland .... Alan Anthony Beaven
David Rasche .... Donald Freeman Greene
Erich Redman .... Christian Adams
Michael J Reynolds .... Patrick Driscoll
John Rothman .... Edward P Felt
Daniel Sauli .... Richard Guadagno
Rebecca Schull .... Patricia Cushing
Chloe Sirene .... Honor Elizabeth Wainio
Olivia Thirlby .... Nicole Carol Miller
Chip Zien .... Mark Rothenberg
Leigh Zimmerman .... Christine Snyder
Paul Greengrass .... Screenwriter
Paul Greengrass .... Director

Cinematic intelligence sources

United 93 (Flight 93) official movie sites:

United 93 (Flight 93) film production notes
United 93 (Flight 93) QuickTime movie trailers

Awards and film festivals:

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS - Oscars) 2007: Nominated: Directing, Film editing
Brisbane International Film Festival 2006: Screening
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) 2007: Won: The David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction (Paul Greengrass), Editing (Clare Douglas, Christopher Rouse, Richard Pearson); Nominated: The Alexander Korda Award for the Outstanding British Film of the Year (Tim Bevan, Lloyd Levin, Paul Greengrass), Original Screenplay (Paul Greengrass), Cinematography (Barry Ackroyd), Sound (Chris Munro, Mike Prestwood Smith, Douglas Cooper, Oliver Tarney, Eddy Joseph)
Cannes Film Festival 2006: Out of competition
Film Critics Circle of Australia 2006: Nominated: Best Foreign Film - English Language
Melbourne International Film Festival 2006: Direct from Cannes

See also 11'09"01, Falcon down, Reign over me, World Trade Centre (World Trade Center)
Studios and distributors:

Working Title Films * Universal Pictures * United International Pictures

Intelligence analyst

Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

The thing that stands out most about the events of 11 September 2001 is not that a plane got hijacked and the passengers and crew fought back but that three planes got hijacked and the passengers and crew did nothing.