A new Netflix documentary, Turning Point: Generation 9/11, marks 25 years since the 11 September 2001 attacks by combining archive recordings and testimony from survivors and the bereaved with an examination of how the day reshaped American politics and society. The Guardian's review praises the 90-minute film for retaining the raw emotional power of the original footage while tracing a clear line from the attacks to the "Trumpian chaos and division" of today's United States.

The film opens with harrowing first-hand material, including 911 calls, survivor accounts and messages left by people who died in the World Trade Center, before broadening its focus to the political aftermath. It highlights the Authorization for Use of Military Force passed by Congress days after the attacks as a pivotal moment, arguing it enabled the invasion of Afghanistan and has since been used to justify military action across the Middle East. The documentary also charts rising hostility towards Muslim Americans, the emergence of the Department of Homeland Security and the "war on terror", and how the early internet fuelled conspiracy theories in the attacks' wake.