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The Path to 9/11

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The Path to 9/11
The Path to 9-11 logo.jpg
Premiere September 10, 2006
Finale September 11, 2006
Creator Marc Platt
Cyrus Nowrasteh
Hans Proppe
Network/Provider ABC
Style drama miniseries
Company Marc Platt Productions
Touchstone Television
Episodes 2
Origin USA

The Path to 9/11 is a two-night, five-hour miniseries broadcast on ABC on September 10th and 11th, 2006. Based on interviews from sources such as the 9/11 Commission Report, it is an attempt to recount critical events that led to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Contents

Cast

Actor Character
Billed Cast
Harvey Keitel John O'Neill
Donnie Wahlberg Kirk
Michael Benyaer Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Shirley Douglas Madeline Albright
Patricia Heaton Barbara Bodine
Secondary Cast
Stephen Root Richard Clarke
Barclay Hope John Miller
Shaun Toub Emad Salem
Amy Madigan Patricia Carver
Nabil Elouhabi Ramzi Yousef
Mido Hamada Massoud
William Sadler Neil Herman
Prasanna Puwanarajah Ishtiak
Dan Lauria George Tenet
Michael Murphy William Cohen
Penny Johnson Condoleezza Rice
Navid Negahban Khalili

Episodes

# Title Airdate
1 Night One September 10, 2006
2 Night Two September 11, 2006

Controversy

A few weeks prior its premiere, the miniseries was the source of some controversy involving its sensitive content. Pre-release reviews suggested that it was critical of the Clinton administration's handling of terrorism-related events. This led to many Democrats, historians, and officials of the Clinton administration to petition ABC to scrap the series, claiming that it did not accurately portray the history. The director of the project denied the claim saying, "There was no agenda for this movie to go after a particular party or person," and "we were showing what happened, and the people who were involved along the way. This is not a blue-state/red-state movie."[1]

References

  1. David Bauder, "ABC Gets More Pressure to Toss 9/11 Film", Associated Press, 8 September 2006.