Twenty-Five years later, Hollywood is giving 9/11 the silent treatment, and it’s making us less safe

I am a historian, but you don’t need a PhD to realize that Americans and Brits learn most of what we know about the world from the movies.

When most people think about World War II, for example, we think about the first few minutes of Stephen Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, or this summer, we are discovering the critical role of the chief Allied meteorologist, Captain James Stagg, through the new film, Pressure. We learned all about Vietnam from Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket and Platoon.