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The 11th of September: Moyers in Conversation. New York: New Video, 2001.

9-11. History Channel http://www.history.com/content/9-11

9/11 Attacks. New York Times http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/s/sept_11_2001/attacks/index.html

The 9/11 Commission Report http://www.gpoaccess.gov/911/pdf/fullreport.pdf

9/11 Flight 93 (Part 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC3pEzJ0GaI&NR=1

Adams, Thelma. "United 93." Us Weekly 8 May 2006: 86.

Ansen, David. "Flight of the Intruders; Re-creating the terrifying ordeal of United 93." Newsweek 1 May 2006: 64.

Baker, Christopher C. “Greengrass Explores Everyday Courage Under Fire.” Harvard Crimson 26 April 2006. http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/4/27/greengrass-explores-everyday-courage-under-fire/

Barrett, Jon. Mark Bingham: Hero of Flight 93. New York: Alyson, 2002.

Beamer, Lisa. Let’s Roll: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage. Wheaton: Tyndale House, 2002.

Beyer, Lisa. "The Most Wanted Man in the World." Time 16 September 2001. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1000871,00.html

Biancolli, Amy. Rev. of United 93, dir. Paul Greengrass. Houston Chronicle 28 April 2006. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/movies/reviews/3784088.html

Burgoyne, Robert. "The Topical Film: United 93 and World Trade Center." The Hollywood Historical Film. Malden: Blackwell Pub., 2008. 148-69.

Burkeman, Oliver. "The Day they Hijacked America." The Guardian 28 April 2006. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2006/apr/28/1

Calhoun, Craig, Paul Price, and Ashley Timmer, eds. Understanding September 11. New York: The New Press, 2002.

Chopra-Gant, Mike. Cinema and History: The Telling of Stories. London: Wallflower, 2008.

Close-up of man in window in burning tower http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSCRK5jbuUc&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Corliss, Richard. “Let’s Roll! Inside the Making of United 93” Time 9 April 2006. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1181637-1,00.html

Dargis, Manohla “Defiance under Fire: Paul Greengrass’s Harrowing ‘United 93.’” New York Times 28 April 2006. http://movies.nytimes.com/2006/04/28/movies/28unit.html

Denby, David. “Last Impressions.” New Yorker 1 May 2006. http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/05/01/060501crci_cinema

Department of Homeland Security http://www.dhs.gov/files/programs/Copy_of_press_release_0046.shtm

Dixon, Wheeler Winston. Film and Television after 9/11. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2004.

Doherty, Thomas. "United 93." Cineaste 31.4 (2006): 73-74.

Ebert, Roger. Rev. of United 93, dir. Paul Greengrass. Chicago Sun-Times 28 April 2006. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060427/REVIEWS/60419006

Edelstein, David. "Flight Sequence." New York 1 May 2006: 107-8.

Farhi,Paul. “When Hollywood Makes History.” Washington Post 28 April 2006. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/27/AR2006042702509.html

The first plane hits the World Trade Center (1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgm8dNJvM6k&NR=1

Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa. http://www.nps.gov/flni/index.htm

flight 93 passenger| 911 heroes|"lets roll" tribute song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E5lSYDV4CM&feature=related

Free 9/11 Documentaries & Videos http://www.911docs.net/

George Bush in school classroom during 9/11 attacks (1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bATjvty5p8k

George Bush in school classroom during 9/11 attacks (2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlBYUNzoWUk&feature=related

George W. Bush - 9/11 Bullhorn Speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7OCgMPX2mE

Greengrass, Paul. United 93: The Shooting Script. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2007.

Hanson, Victor Davis. An Autumn of War: What America Learned from September 11 and the War on Terrorism. New York: Random House Publishing, 2002.

Hoberman, J. "The New Disaster Movie." Village Voice 17 May 2006: C62-63.

Hoberman, J. "Unquiet Americans." Sight and Sound 16.10 (2006): 20-23.

Hornaday, Anne. “Raw Courage.” Washington Post 28 April 2006. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/27/AR2006042702390.html

Inside 9/11. National Geographic. 2006.

Interview with the director Paul Greengrass. ABC News. http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=1805902

Jordan, John. "Transcending Hollywood: The Referendum on United 93 as Cinematic Memorial." Critical Studies in Media Communication 25.2 (2008): 196-223.

Kauffmann, Stanley. "Drama and Disorder." New Republic 22 May 2006: 24.

Kendrick, James. "Representing the Unrepresentable: 9/11 on Film and Television." Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and History. Ed. Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2008.

Life Magazine editors. One Nation: America Remembers September 11, 2001. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2001.

Lim, Dennis. "Bloody Tuesday." Village Voice 19 April 2006: 3.

Longman, Jere. Among the Heroes: United Flight 93 and the Passengers and Crew who Fought Back. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2002.

Mendelsohn, Daniel. "September 11 at the Movies." New York Review of Books 21 September 2006. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19292

Merchan, George. "Exclusive Interview: Paul Greengrass (United 93)." http://www.chud.com/articles/articles/6538/1/EXCLUSIVE-INTERVIEW-PAUL-GREENGRASS-UNITED-93/Page1.html

Natoli, Joseph. This is a Picture and Not the World: Movies and a Post-9/11 America. Albany: State University of New York P, 2007.

Norris, Michelle. "Playing a Despised Terrorist: 'United 93'." All Things Considered (NPR)3 May 2006.

O’Connell, Sean. “United 93.” FilmCritic.com 2006. http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/reviews/United-93

Osama bin Laden on 9/11 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiKyWJRRjnU&NR=1

Pittman, Frank. "Screening Room -- World Trade Center and United 93 -- Fortunately, Hollywood's first efforts to deal with 9/11 succeed in giving larger meaning to what we saw and felt on that devastating day." Psychotherapy Networker 30.6 (2006): 77-81.

Podhoretz, John. "9/11 on Film." Weekly Standard 8 May 2006: 46-47.

President George W. Bush's Post 9/11 Speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMiqEUBux3o

Puig, Claudia. “Wrenching ‘United 93’ is harrowing in its realism.” USA Today 24 April 2006. http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2006-04-24-united-93_x.htm

Quotes about the Sept 11, 2001 attack on America. The Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies (CI Centre) http://www.cicentre.com/Documents/DOC_Quotes_12SEP01.htm

Rea, Steven. “‘United 93’ is powerfully real.” Philadelphia Inquirer 28 April 2006: W03.

Rice, Ned. "United 93 Defames Islam and Bill Clinton Equally." Human Events 8 May 2006: 15.

Rich, Frank. "Too Soon? It's Too Late for United 93." New York Times 7 May 2006.

Roddy, Dennis B. “Forty Lives, One Destiny.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 28 October 2001. http://www.post-gazette.com/headlines/20011028flt93mainstoryp7.asp

Rollins, Peter C. The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past. New York: Columbia UP, 2003.

Rommel-Ruiz, W. Bryan. American History Goes to the Movies: Hollywood and the American Experience. New York: Routledge, 2011.

Rosenbaum, Ron. "Hijacking the Hijacking: The Problem with the United 93 Films." Slate 27 April 2006. http://www.slate.com/id/2140676/

Rosenthal, Alan. Why Docudrama? Fact-Fiction on Film and TV. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1999.

Schwarzbaum, Lisa. “United 93.” Entertainment Weekly 19 April 2006. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1184987,00.html

Scott, Janny. "9/11 Leaves Its Mark on History Classes." New York Times 6 September 2006.

Scott, Peter Dale. The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America. Berkeley: U of California P, 2007.

The second plane hits the World Trade Center (1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XELamUnF0EU&NR=1

The second plane hits the World Trade Center (2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJOwttgBpzE&NR=1

September 11 News.com http://www.september11news.com/

September 11, 2001. Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2006/03/30/LI2006033000769.html

September 11, 2001 - As It Happened - The Initial Bulletins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP5uIPyYDlQ

Short film following the path of flight United 93 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii4wP_auu_o&feature=related

Simpson, David. 9/11: The Culture of Commemoration. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006.

Smith, Gavin. "United 93 -- Paul Greengrass talks about filming the unfilmable." Film Comment 42.3 (2006): 24-29.

Snyder, Gabriel. "A 'UNITED' FRONT?" Variety 1 May 2006: 5.

Spark, Alasdair, and Elizabeth Stuart. "Welcome Aboard: Faith, Life and Death in United 93." Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 15 (2007).

Tracey, Grant. Filmography of American History. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002.

Trailer for the film United 93 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km-dhumCD1w

Transcript: Flight 93 Cockpit Tape http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/moussaoui/flight93tape.html

Travers, Peters. “United 93.” Rolling Stone 18 May 2006: 232. http://ezproxy.lib.lehigh.edu/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1040942321&sid=5&Fmt=3&clientId=3005&RQT=309&VName=PQD

Trial of Zacarias Moussaoui 2006 http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/moussaoui/moussaouihome.html

"United 93 & World Trade Center -- As Paul Greengrass and Oliver Stone unveil their controversial films, we ask whether there's any place for 9/11 in the movies." Film Review No. 671 (Summer 2006): 52-61.

"United 93 - Hollywood's first 9/11 movie. A 9/11 Movie: Is It too Soon?" People Weekly 24 April 2006: 82-84.

"United 93 - Paul Greengrass interview." Indielondon.2005. http://www.indielondon.co.uk/Film-Review/united-93-paul-greengrass-interview

United 93 Ending http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCn087hw4qI

United 93. Production Notes. Cinema Review. http://www.cinemareview.com/production.asp?prodid=3393

United 93 takeoff http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtiEsaW1dYY&feature=related

United States. National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States. 9/11 Commission Report. New York: Barnes and Noble Publishing, Inc., 2004.

Zarembka, Paul. The Hidden History of 9-11. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2006.