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Released
2005 · FILM

The Flight That Fought Back

Directed by
Runtime
95 min
DocumentaryDrama

Synopsis

On September 11, 2001, passengers aboard United Flight 93—one of four planes hijacked by terrorists that day and the only one to be diverted from its intended target—faced the unthinkable and inspired a nation. The terrorists had spent two years planning their attack, but the 40 strangers aboard the flight managed to thwart it in just 30 minutes. This is the story of their courage, as told through actual voice recordings, personal accounts from family and friends, and extensive research into the events on board. The film follows the account of their "first strike back at terrorism" and explores how these complete strangers, united by adversity, came together to stop the terrorists' plans.

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Principal cast & crew: 23

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

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This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Joby GeeShot by Kev RobertsonScored by Mark L BeazleyDesigned by Debbie Andrews

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