World Trade Center: Rise & Fall of an Icon

The World Trade Center was an iconic structure and has been featured in numerous films as well as appearing in many television shows, cartoons, comic books, video games and music videos. Portions of Godspell were filmed at the top of the World Trade Center as the building was nearing completion.[141] The final scene of the 1976 film King Kong took place at the World Trade Center instead of the Empire State Building where the scene had taken place in the original film.[142] The events surrounding the September 11 attacks were portrayed in several documentaries and movies, including two major motion pictures made in 2006: Oliver Stone's World Trade Center and Paul Greengrass' United 93.[143][144] Several movies released shortly after 9/11 digitally erased the Twin Towers from skyline shots; one such was Spider-Man.[145] As of 2008[update], most networks airing reruns of popular television shows have chosen to leave the Twin Towers alone such as in establishing shots in Friends and in episodes of The Simpsons. An exception to this was the opening montage of HBO's Sex and The City within which producers removed shots of the Towers as a mark of respect for the victims of 9/11.[146]