102 Minutes That Changed America is an American television special documentary film that was produced by the History Channel and premiered commercial-free on Thursday, September 11, 2008, marking the seventh anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
Its name comes from the timespan from the first impact of American Airlines Flight 11 at 8:46 AM to the collapse of the North Tower at 10:28 AM (although the film begins and ends two minutes later than each of those times).
The film depicts, in real time, the New York–based events of the attacks primarily using various sources including[1] raw footage from mostly amateur citizen journalists, focusing mainly on the reactions of New York inhabitants during the incident.
[4] In this channel, the film featured a high audience with 345,000 viewers and 18.4% share, thus achieving the program's best record since 18 May 2021.
[5] A&E Television Networks, parent company of History, aired it across all of their cable networks on September 11, 2011, at 8:46 a.m. EDT, the exact time American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into 1 World Trade Center ten years earlier.