Acclaimed 9/11 Documentary 7 Days in September Arrives on Tubi

Steven Rosenbaum’s essential, street-level record of the first week after the attacks is now streaming on free service

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Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Acclaimed 9/11 Documentary 7 Days in September Arrives on Tubi
Steven Rosenbaum’s essential, street-level record of the first week after the attacks is now streaming free, as its original 35mm print and source footage enter the permanent collection of The New York Public Library

NEW YORK, NY — Twenty-five years after September 11, the acclaimed documentary 7 Days in September is now streaming free on Tubi.
Directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Steven Rosenbaum, 7 Days in September is an intimate, first-person chronicle of New York City in the immediate aftermath of the attacks. Constructed from the work of 27 filmmakers, including professional camera crews and New Yorkers carrying cameras through an unimaginable week, the film captures the fear, confusion, grief, rage, and extraordinary solidarity that followed the destruction of the World Trade Center.
The footage begins in lower Manhattan as early as 10:05 a.m. on September 11, then follows the city through the seven days that followed: the dust-covered streets around Ground Zero; the disappearance of familiar landmarks from the skyline; firefighters and police working through the night; makeshift memorials and walls of missing-person flyers; strangers lining up to donate blood, food, and supplies; families waiting for news; and New Yorkers trying to comprehend an event that had changed the city, the country, and the world.

To commemorate the 25th anniversary, Rosenbaum and filmmaker Pamela Yoder released more than two hours of previously unseen raw footage from the night of 9/11 on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwcK5ATZF6w

The film also makes space for the quieter stories that news coverage often missed. A firefighter’s wife waits and worries. A Muslim American New Yorker confronts the fear and suspicion that followed the attacks. An 11-year-old boy tries to make sense of the new reality around him. These moments give 7 Days in September its lasting force. The film is about catastrophe, but it is also about people meeting one another in the middle of it.

“It recreates what those days felt like with excruciating precision: the wild panic, the moments of funereal calm, the spontaneous blossoming of solidarity and fellow feeling.”
— A.O. Scott, The New York Times

“If ever there was a prime example of art bringing order out of chaos, it is Steven Rosenbaum’s 7 Days in September.”
— Los Angeles Times

“The tragedy and the many responses to it come alive here in a raw, immediate way that suffers no loss of impact for its aversion to melodrama.”
— Los Angeles Daily News

When the film was first released in 2002, it stood apart from the many accounts of September 11 because it did not rely on narration, political argument, or the distance of hindsight. Its power came from the simple, difficult decision to let New Yorkers speak for themselves and to let the camera remain present in moments when most of the world was still trying to understand what it had seen.

The film has maintained a rare 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes, describing the documentary as a powerful record of the atmosphere in New York “in the hours and days after the attacks,” from rescue workers scrambling to save lives to ordinary citizens struggling to make sense of what had happened.

“The film not only stands as an important street-level document of that time, but makes a valuable contribution to the growing compilation of 9/11 storytelling.”
— TV Guide

The Tubi release arrives one year after a major act of preservation ensured that the film’s larger historical record will endure. In 2025, Rosenbaum and filmmaker Pamela Yoder donated the CameraPlanet Archive to The New York Public Library. The collection includes more than 1,200 hours of video shot by more than 130 New Yorkers, one of the most extensive first-person archives of September 11 and its aftermath. https://tubitv.com/movies/100046285/7-days-in-september https://tinyurl.com/7DaysInSeptember

The donation includes the original 35mm print of 7 Days in September, along with the footage from which the film emerged. While portions of the archive were seen in the documentary, most of the material has never been publicly available. The Library is preserving the collection for researchers, historians, educators, journalists, and future generations seeking to understand the lived experience of September 11 beyond the familiar images shown repeatedly on television. The New York Public Library expects to make the 1,200-hour CameraPlanet 9/11 video archive publicly accessible in 2027 at its research centers, with a complete online release targeted for 2030.

“The film was made while the city was still in shock,” Rosenbaum said. “Nobody knew what the next day would bring. What you see is people trying to find one another, trying to help, trying to understand. That is why it still matters.”
Tubi will stream 7 Days in September free on the Tubi site and its apps.

For viewers who remember the week firsthand, the film offers an unvarnished return to its emotional reality. For younger audiences, it provides something increasingly rare: a direct, human-scale account of an event that is often reduced to a date, a history lesson, or a montage of familiar images.
Tubi calls the film “an emotional 9/11 street-level chronicle,” told through the first-person footage of 27 New Yorkers: a collective diary of a city’s darkest week.
About 7 Days in September

Released in 2002, 7 Days in September is a feature documentary directed by Steven Rosenbaum and Pamela Yoder. Crafted from footage contributed by 27 filmmakers, the film documents the first seven days in New York City following the September 11 attacks. It received a CINE Golden Eagle and a Telly Award and holds a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score.

About the CameraPlanet Archive
The CameraPlanet Archive is a collection of more than 1,200 hours of video documenting September 11, its immediate aftermath, and the development of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Collected and preserved by Steven Rosenbaum and Pamela Yoder, the archive was donated to The New York Public Library in 2025. Learn more at CameraPlanet.
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