If the events of September 11, 2001 were defining moments of the last century, they have also been among the most widely documented and scrutinized. The dust had not settled in the World Trade Center crater before filmmakers began to spool out post-mortems and laments. The years following 9/11 have seen countless documentary inquiries, ranging from memorials and tributes, to condemnations of the civil liberty infringements of the "war on terror", to countless conspiracy theories accounting for "why the towers fell."

The Media Resources Center has attempted to collect a wide range of materials representing the personal, civil, and international responses to 9/11. The collection includes 24-hour coverage of the events by CNN and Fox News, as well as presidential speeches and news conferences made in the days following. MRC has also attempted to collect a sampling of documentaries dealing with the impact of 9/11 on ethnic communities in the US, and documentaries by filmmakers critical of the US response to the events. We've also acquired a number of the stranger conspiracy explanations of the events of September 11.

A complete listing of MRC 9/11 holdings can be found at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/terrorism.html together with documentary works dealing with other contemporary and historical international acts of terrorism.