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Sunday, September 15, 2013

Frontline: "Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero"



Near the end of Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero, a Jewish rabbi describes the impression made on him by people trapped in the World Trade Center who took one another's hands before leaping to their death: 
"To believe against evil evidence hourly that love is why we are here."

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Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero represents a different kind of documentary rarely seen on television – an intelligent meditation on the nature of good and evil, on the presence or absence of God on 9/11, on what we would do when faced with elemental choices about life and death.

Producer-director Helen Whitney rose to the formidable challenge of approaching 9/11 from a spiritual perspective. This was the key decision: that the series needed to reach beyond the immediate politics and economics of the situation. 



Critics gave it high praise – it was called “harrowing and uplifting in equal measure,” and “the 9/11 program that rises above all others."

I hope you’ll agree -- these are two of the most indispensable FRONTLINE episodes ever made.

-Louis Wiley, FRONTLINE Consulting Editor 

Video: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/faith/



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