Apple & BBC Ready 9/11 Doc with Jeff Daniels

Apple TV+ and the BBC have partnered for 9/11: Inside the President’s War Room, a new documentary special that follows the timeline of the U.S. presidency in the immediate hours after the attack.

Narrated by Emmy Award winner Jeff Daniels (The Looming Tower, The Comey Rule), 9/11: Inside the President’s War Room recounts the 12 hours after the strike on U.S. soil, offering insight into the decision-making dilemmas, with those involved providing revealing details for the first time. The doc, directed by Adam Wishart, will make its debut on Apple TV+ and BBC One in September.

9/11: Inside the President’s War Room will feature never-before-heard testimony with President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice (National Security Advisor), Colin Powell (Secretary of State), Andy Card (Chief of Staff), Dan Bartlett (Director of Communications), Rear Admiral Deborah Loewer (Head of Situation Room), Josh Bolten (Deputy Chief of Staff), Ari Fleischer (Press Secretary), Karl Rove (Senior Advisor to the President), Mary Matalin (advisor to Cheney), Karen Hughes (Special Advisor to the President), Mike Morrell (CIA briefer), Ted Olson (Solicitor General), Colonel Mark Tillman (Air Force One pilot), David Wilkinson and Tony Zotto (Secret Service). It will also feature nearly 200 never previously published photographs and filmed archive.

9/11: Inside the President’s War Room is helmed by director Adam Wishart, with creative producer Simon Finch and executive producer Neil Grant on board. Head of production on the project is Serena Kennedy.