City within a City This observational footage of the World Trade Center provides a simple and yet riveting view of the buildings and the busy pedestrian traffic years before the attacks. In particular, the video shows some of the most memorable sculptures, plazas, and at at time code 6:00 you can see people walking down the now the now historic Vesey Staircase.

Length 3:13

Jen S., a newly arrived New Yorker finds that from her street in Brooklyn the papers from the World Trade Center are filling the sky.

Length: 2:36

From their apartment just north of the World Trade Center Suzanne and her husband watch and record what they see out their window. In their words, and their silence, you can hear all of New York holding its breath.

Length: 2:39

Mike C, a computer programmer and amateur videographer took his fish eye lens, his folding bike, and a long camera pole - and found himself in the middle of the stormcloud of smoke and dust.

"I have a fisheye lense, a camera pole, and a scooter" In a city full of observers, this nighttime journey through the dust covered streets of New York is a rare look at a city just after a stunning blow. Mike C's fisheye lense and scooter journey takes from the streets to the rooftops. And once there - the camera provides a unblinking look at what remains of the World Trade Center

Link to transcript: http://www.magnifyme.net/CPApdf.8.26/MC-01.pdf

On September 11th, 2001 walk through the ashes, the smoke, the dazed rescue workers -and see what they saw through their own eyes.

On September 11th, 2001 two young filmmakers walked downtown and found themselves staring up at a smoldering wreckage of what had been The World Trade Center. Their footage, and the slow and careful view of the scene bring people inside what it might have looked like to the rescue workers who stood silently at the site.

Length 5:27

"I just wandered toward the West Side Highway... and the crowds..." So much of what we forget about 9/11 is the spontaneous outpouring of concern, appreciation, and community. In the days while smoke still billowed from the site of The World Trade Center, the West Side Highway became a improvised parade route for rescue workers and volunteers.

For most folks, the view from the observation deck at the World Trade Center was as close to walking in the clouds as they might ever be. But for the team that rode the scaffold and washed windows at the Trade Center - life in the clouds was part of the job.

Length: 2:04

College Student Jenny Tolan had her camera in hand when she discovered this candlelight vigil at Lincoln Center. The sounds, the images, and the emotion were very raw.