Resources

Videos / Film / TV

• “NYC Epicenters 9/11 -> 2021½” – Spike Lee documentary on HBO
• “The Day Half a Million People Were Rescued By Boat” | I Was There – Vice – YouTube
• “Boatlift, An Untold Tale of 9/11 Resilience” (Narrated by Tom Hanks) – YouTube
• Unique, rare 9/11 material shot from the Hudson – YouTube
  • This unique material was shot for RTL Extra from the Chelsea Screamer, one of the boats that evacuated people from Manhattan to New Jersey.
• “Rescue at Water’s Edge: The U.S. Merchant Marine Response to 9/11” – by MARAD – YouTube
• “Pier 25 After the Fall” by Mike Mazzei – YouTube
  • dockbuilder, removing WTC rubble at the same Pier 25 where the PortSide NewYork exhibit was installed on the LILAC
• “Fireboats of 9-11” – History Channel Video Production – YouTube
• September 11: The heroes of the forgotten maritime rescue mission – BBC
• 9/11 BOATLIFT: How the Merchant Marine Moved 500,000 people | What’s Going on With Shipping? – YouTube
• The Great American Boatlift – Sunday Night in America – FOX News
• The heroes of the forgotten 9/11 maritime evacuation – BBC
• Honoring the Heroes of the Great Boat Lift Out of Manhattan on 9/11 – NBC
• NYC boat procession honors 9/11 victims, commemorates largest water evacuation in history – ABC7NY
• September 11 Photojournal – Hirovision

Audio / Oral Histories

• Marine radio transmissions from September 11 released by the Coast Guard that begin with the initial call reporting an explosion at the World Trade Center from the sailing yacht Ventura and continue (in four parts) to documenting the waterborne evacuation.
  Links to audio files:  1, 2, 3, 4
  Transcription of part 1, part 2
• “Harbor Voices from 9/11” – produced by David Tarnow – Transom.org
  • Related Audio Documentary: “All Available Boats: Harbor Voices from 9/11” – WNPR Connecticut

Museum / Exhibits

• PortSide NewYork Exhibit “Mariners’ Response to 9/11”
• Women’s History: From Volunteer Day to 9/11 Hero

Grief:

• Coping with reminders after a loss – Mayo Clinic
• Collective Trauma and the Social Construction of Meaning – Frontiers in Psychology
• Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief – Claire Bidwell Smith

Journalism and Trauma:

• Collected originally in preparation for the talk “Shining Light on Dark Stories,” presented at Fortellingens kraft 2022 in Bergen, Norway on 21 September 2022. Access Google Doc here.

• The Art of Description – Mark Doty 
• The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma – a project of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism