this feels like a documentary with no speaker

"This was the loudest silence anyone ever heard."

The free movies with the free soda and popcorn was actually pretty heartwarming

i had a 4th grade teacher who told us a story about his friend who used to work in the north tower of the twin towers. he said his friend's family would always want him to stay home and eat breakfast with them, but he would always say no and prioritize his work. one day, he decided to stay and eat with them, and that day was 9/11/01. when he was on his way to work, there was a mob of people running in the other direction and he soon found out what had happened. the craziest part of it is that he worked on floor 94, which flight 11 directly flew into. the fact that he chose that day to stay with his family is beyond a miracle.

The sign that said “Have the heart to forgive” with the word “never” overwriting “forgive” was such a powerful way of showing the conflicting views on that day.

Movie theater being free got me, not sure why. Guess it's just seeing everyone willing to help cheer people up and take their minds off what happened.

I wasn't alive during 9/11, but videos like these.. just make me so uneasy. The silence. You can tell something's wrong. The only way to describe this video is uncomfortably heavy.

Even the dog looked sad. He could probably sense the mood.

My dad told me that he used to see the same old faces every morning in the train heading to work . Most of them worked at the twin towers . He said the next day after 9/11 train carts were mostly emptied . He never saw those people again

That man playing the saxophone spoke more words about that day than anyone else.

You can tell that everyone is still processing it and it just makes you sad.

0:30 his distant look and the silence say everything, everything changed that day, nothing was ever the same

it’s so sad how everyone just looks so bummed out and confused.

It’s like everyone is trying to comprehend on what happened the day before

I was in my 20's when 9/11 happened. I saw the Twin Towers fall to the ground on 6th Avenue. Traumatized for life. Never forget.

The free movie, soda, and popcorn post really hit me. There was lots of pain. I can feel it even today. 😢

The “day at the movies poster” actually made me cry. You can visualize so many destroyed souls just looking to get away with a movie and a free soda/popcorn

This random disassociated footage tells a more poignant story than any forced narrative with dramatic voice over ever could. There's such an empty sad feeling here. Dust and silence. What a time capsule

Today is 9/11/23. And I would like to mark my words here, today. I was gonna be born on 9/11 but my mom held me in until 9/12, I love my mom for putting all the pain inside her just for me to not celebrate my birthday on such a tragic day. Love you mama ❤

Was born on this day. Mom went into labour right after the first plane hit. She was in labour all day, was born just after midnight

Its so surreal seeing how people don't know what to do and are just wandering around not really knowing what to do

this was genuinely the quietest footage of nyc i’ve ever watched and it’s heartbreaking

I recall the strange feeling of looking at the night sky on 9-11 and it being totally devoid of any aircraft. It was eerie.

It’s nice to see that everyone is helping each other out after a horrible attack happened. Tragedy can turn into beauty.

My dad interviewed for a job with a company who worked in the World Trade Center. He didn’t get it, which is super lucky looking back on it.

That was very generous of the theater offering free movies and snacks

Thank you for this footage! This allows me, a 15 year old guy from germany to experience this special feeling you must have had after two planes crashed into the towers you maybe saw everyday as a part of daily live, which now is a invisible symbol of terrorism and death. My condolences to the family of everyone who died at ground zero, regardless if its a fireman, a passanger in one of those planes or someone working in on of the towers.

0:33 something about seeing that dog really moved me no idea why sounds corny but it did RIP to all those lost but not forgotten ❤

The day after 9/11, the hot dogs were free, the movies, the museums, everything. Everyone was just doing what they could to feel anything but pain. Everyone had a shoulder to cry on, and no one stayed inside that day. Makes you wonder what has to happen for us to be like that again. To just be Americans helping and loving each other without any judgment or forethought.

KZfaq is the closest thing we have to a time machine

Lower Manhattan had a particular smell for the next few days, one that I never forget. A mix of concrete, fuel, burnt plastic, and Death. it got stuck on my clothes for some time.

The one where the guy was sitting on the curb with his hand on his face literally broke me it’s such a sad day that happened and especially for the people who went through. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

The fear is so loud with the silence.

The whole city just looks... tired. Like all anyone wants to do is sleep and forget about what happened.

Very important historical footage. Glad there is no commentary, just the raw audio. Tysm.

It’s chilling when you think about how an entire generation grew up with the Twin Towers, and had never seen the NY skyline without them. So I can only imagine how that first day seeing the empty skyline must have been such a stab to the heart.

there’s so many people yet it’s so quiet. chills. full body chills.

This is weirdly nostalgic and feels slightly traumatizing even though I literally wasn't alive when it happened

I'll always remember, I was 11, in my Bronx neighborhood we came together and held a vigil for those who perished and for our city/nation. It was beautiful. I can't think about it without tearing up.

The fact that most of the people there are all quiet and look sad makes it more depressing

My man is literally able to record in the streets of New York without worrying about cars

My mom, told me the days after it happened, everyone was just quiet, she'd go to a store and it was silent, as if everyone was in a complete state of shock. Everyone had American flags on their cars including hers, and it was just shock.

comfortably numb is such an appropriate song for this

It is like people are still in shock and half of them disassociating asf

just imagine how much anxiety a lot of people had whenever they heard a plane flying by

Lots of people walking around with a thousand-yard stare.

And today marks 22 years of that day, watching this video and first it makes you sad to see people walking aimlessly but then you see all the people Helping and encouraging gives me enormous faith and makes my heart quite happy.

seeing stuff like the “a day at the movies” sign and people holding hands with each other is so wholesome, like everybody actually coming together in the midst of tragedy. nowadays they’d charge 5 bucks extra for everything and we’d all be paranoid of even our family

This gives me such a weird feeling. It makes me feel like everyone is actually real and not just people walking by on the sidewalk.

Imagine those officers, firefighters, and EMTs having to work the day after over 300 of their colleagues were murdered

I turned 18 just a few months ago, wasn’t alive yet but plenty of family members were. My dad said that he saw it on TV after my aunt yelled at him to look at the TV, he couldn’t believe it and called my grandmother, she was hysterical. Same thing for my mother, she saw it on TV and couldn’t believe it but if I recall correctly, her mother called her first telling her about what happened. My father was only a few miles away from New York at the time. When I asked both my father and my mother about the day after, they said it was a very quiet day.

I was born in 1994. I was in first grade in math class when 9/11 happened. And this, this feeling is what I remember the most. Seeing the world suddenly change in to this in the following days. Seeing a massive, massive change in every single person in this country. We were one for a moment. And then we turned to hate.

it's depressing, you can tell everyone is down

Seeing people walk around aimlessly and feeling confused, empty and lost is one of the most heartbreaking things.

Wow . This is hard to watch with today being the 22nd anniversary of the attacks . I can feel the emotions . I remember being in 5th Grade when our teacher turned on the news and we could all see the North Tower on fire. Like everyone, I thought it was an accident. That was until we saw the second tower hit and everything changed . We all got sent home and I lived three blocks away from school. When I got home, I remember asking my mom what was going on and she just grabbed me and told me to sit down and we watched in silence. To this day, I’ll never forget me and her watching the news nearly every day after the attack. I was only 10 so I didn’t know what terrorism meant . My heart breaks on the anniversary. So many people suddenly lost their lives in an evil attack in just a span of nearly 2 hours. We will never forget .

I was a Freshman in highschool also, in Minnesota. Our school day started at 7:30am central time-New York is an hour ahead on eastern time. My first class was English: we had just started reading Lord of the Flies. We were silently reading & another teacher came in, whispered something to my teacher, & they turned on the TV. I had absolutely no concept of what the World Trade Center was for, even less of an idea that there were people who would hate Americans so much they’d want to kill them. There was so much confusion when first period ended, walking to our second classes and talking amongst ourselves trying to figure out what was happening and why it was happening. My second class was American Government (how timely, right?) I remember my teacher was pregnant. It was from her that I gained more clarity about the situation & I’m grateful I had that class when I did. We watched as things progressed and it was the first time I remember truly realizing that adults get scared, too & can forget to be brave for kids to reassure them things would be alright…things were definitely not alright. I remember at the end of the day wondering if we’d lose our country in the morning when we woke up, or if America would simply just fall apart and cease to be…scared me then and twenty two years later I can still feel the fear I felt that day. We must never forget.

Everyone looks like they’re wondering what’s the purpose of their lives and if what they’re doing even actually matters.

I’ve never heard silence quite this loud.

So thankful someone recorded this. 9/11 happened when I was only a year old so obviously I don’t remember any of it…but seeing this allowed me to step into this tragic but beautiful moment in time. All people could do was love on each other after that.

I couldn't really think much of outside of "this was terrible" from my perspective, as someone who wasn't there nor from New York. But this shows the view from someone from New York, and just shows how much despair there is. And also shows the unity of the people there. So somber, so tragic, yet somehow beautiful too.

Seeing that dog broke my heart. It made me realize how many dogs never got to see their owners again

It’s like, calm. Chillingly calm. It’s the figurative calm “after the storm”. People stuck trying to process what had just happened. Never forget!

The silence of a city as big as NYC is something beautiful to me, like the way in which each person feels emotionally connected after what happened is welcoming in some way, I can't explain it. This video is a window to the past and you can feel everything around, i can feel each person, it feels very real and alive, I don't know if there is anyone who sees it like that. Even though this has been 23 years, I can feel it is recent I wasn't even born in 2001 and I'm not even from the USA but i hope that all the people affected now live or rest in peace.

Rest in Peace to the 2997 victims of the September 11th attacks. And Rest in Peace to the 432,000 civilians killed in 18 years of US military action in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Imagine being a tourist from a foreign country and witnessing the attack

I remember that week vividly. I live in Queens, and it was so eerie in the city for a long time after. I was off on the day of 9/11, and I was planning to go to J&R music World that morning to buy a headset for my cell phone. Anybody from NY remembers how close J&R on Park Row was to the Twin Towers. I would have been caught up in all that, but I decided to stay home and chill in bed. That probably ended up saving my life.

I'll never forget the depression of the entire country that horrible day. I was 21 yrs old in Florida and every where you went people were just sad shocked and depressed. I'll never forget the energy of that day.

fact that I'm watching this on 9/12/23 is crazy

Everything looks normal but somehow you can feel that something is not right.

This video is exactly how my dad described the city being for a long time after 9/11. He said everybody was helping and just cherishing each other, no matter who they were.

I dont know if anybody will see this but my Fathers birthday was September 12th and he said it was one of the must fun days of his life because even though the towers were hit yesterday, he loved it because he spent the whole day at a bar with all of his friends. Still remember all the stories he told about this.

Those were the days when they realized they needed each other more than ever. New Yorkers are passionate and I can respect that.

It’s crazy to think people were literally still alive and trapped when this was filmed.

Everyone's just sad, not going to work and basically just wandering the streets, this is so sad...

this makes me teary-eyed thinking of those who perished and did not get to witness the following day, and for those who lost their loved ones with things never being the same again starting that day.

I was born in 2005. My mom’s 19th birthday was on this day, 9/12/01. She told me she worked in her college state, Colorado as the event unfolded the previous day. She and her coworkers were in complete shock. And this video was probably the quietest I’ve ever seen the city. And I’ve never visited New York before. This is chilling. People were in so much shock and disbelief of what just happened 24 hours ago, no one ever expected it to happen, yet it happened right in front of their eyes. I couldn’t imagine all of the thoughts racing through their minds not just during the event, but even after the 23 years it happened. My condolences go out to all of the lives lost, and to the friends and family members of all of the victims whose life were taken in just several seconds.

even if you didn’t read the title, you could just tell something was off. everyone looked so distraught, but they had to carry on with their lives.

While this was being filmed there was two port authority police officers trapped under rubble who were talking to keep each other alive, later that day they both were dug out alive and made a full recovery.

I'll never forget the city in those days. I lived in East Harlem and went to Union Square on 9/14. People were in mourning - but also having spirited debates about military intervention. Hey, we're New Yorkers after all. I remember sitting at Cosi on Broadway and 13th and a fire truck drove by and we were all applauding the firefighters. I later learned that people applauding them in those days made them feel bad, because they all had survivors guilt and felt helpless. God bless them all.

They say that one picture is worth a thousand words. this picture captured millions of words without speaking a single word. The eerie silence broken by the occasional bird or dog noise, and the distant wail of a siren. How everything somewhat seems normal, yet everyone seen knows very well nothing is normal, but nobody can think of the words to describe it

My dad worked at the world trade center at the time.. His birthday is 9/11 so he didn't go into work that day. If he was born 7 minutes later, he probably wouldn't be here today.

You can totally see that feeling of “heaviness” of the people.

I’m from England, and i’m only 16 so I wasn’t alive when this happened. I’m watching documentaries like this to educate myself on what happened, and its awful. When i was nine, I went to New York. My sister was 21, and she wanted to go for her birthday. We went to the memorial centre for 9/11, and I was appalled at what i saw. Tourists (mainly Asain, in massive tour groups) taking selfies, kids doing cart wheels and people laughing and filming funny videos. This was such a tragic event, which even i knew, and yet these people were acting like it was a meet and greet for their favourite film. I am asking you this: Please show love. Be kind, respectful and thoughtful of others, and what they have or may have been through❤

It's a shame that it takes a tragedy of this magnitude to bring us all together. If we could coexist the way we did right after 9/11 (though it was short lived), on a daily basis, we could accomplish so much in this lifetime. The time is now.

Imagine going to bed the night that all happened, not being sure if there is another attack impending all while being extremely traumatized from what you experienced that day. Unbelievable

The most chilling part was on that day, and the days after, thousands of people were looking for missing persons. Notes, letters, pictures, drawings and crying people were everywhere.

I’m Canadian myself. My family has no connections to the US. Since I wasn’t alive for 9/11 I asked my mom what that day was like. She remembered she was on the treadmill in our basement, doing her morning workout. She was called by a friend who said something bad had happened. My mom assumed someone she knew had died but then she was told to turn on the TV. That’s when she saw the towers were struck. We Canadians are allies with the US but our relationship is deeper than being neighbours and allies. We are friends. For most countries we can brush off a terrorist attack, not because of distance but because of our relationship with that country. For the US we saw our friends being attacked, being killed and it was a scary thing. When the time came we gladly followed them into war. I would only hope the US would do the same for us if the roles were reversed.

hard to believe I was only 3 years old when the attack happened and I didn’t learn about 9/11 until the 7th grade and that was in 2010… I asked my mom what was the day like on September 11th, 2001 and she said it was a pretty, hot and sunny day.. she said she was in a good mood, cleaning and then all of sudden the music stopped and that’s when the breaking news about 9/11 was on television and radio .. she said that’s when everything changed.. I grew up in a two bedroom apartment in a small town in Texas when the attack happened.. im 26 years old now and I still wanna be able to experience New York and the One World Trade Center but looking at the pictures of the Twin Towers just makes me wish that I was born way earlier to experience what it was like..

The energy this video is so heavy. Nobody seems to know what to do, what to think. They all seem so lost and confused. And there not even doing anything out of the ordinary for them.

Its so..... quiet... everyone was on edge or depressed, almost no inbetween too.

TBH watching this is so depressing the quiet and pain you see in the people as they are left speechless with no words

Wow, they really weren't lying. "A nation in mourning." Clicked this video because that line popped into my head from seeing the thumbnail. It's incredible accurate.

they're just doing normal daily activities but the mood is just collectively more solemn

It’s cool how everyone is trying to piece themselves together as a community.

I can't even imagine what waking up in NYC would have been like that day, if anyone slept at all.

Thank you for sharing all videos, you were so young that time We saw on tv at that time...

At first glance it seems normal, but there's this empty feeling throughout the whole video and it's pretty sad.

it's so... quiet? you can hear everyone thinking.

0:30 that guy’s face says everything. That is the face of a man going through the five stages of grief.

Despite being filmed directly after one of the most heinous tragedies in modern history, this video is so beautiful in a way. It displays every angle of human existence and human suffering.