Hollywood’s 9/11 Dialogue: Six Films That Shaped a Nation’s Memory
The Hollywood Reporter surveys how Hollywood has grappled with 9/11 through six films—25th Hour, United 93, World Trade Center, Reign Over Me, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, and Worth—highlighting grief, resilience, and moral reckoning in the national psyche. It notes how early projects were pulled or postponed, later giving way to movies that helped shape public understanding of the attacks and their aftermath, with Spielberg’s War of the Worlds also cited as a resonant response.