WTC in Movies Alphabetical - S
Saint of 9/11 (2006)
Footage from 9/11 at 4-6 minutes, 1 hour 1 minute, 1 hour 9 minutes
The Saint of Fort Washington (1993)
1 hour 17 minutes
Sam the Man (2001)
39 minutes, 46 minutes, 1 hour 2 minutes
Samurai Troopers Gaiden (1989)
Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)
48 minutes, 51 minutes, 1 hour 14 minutes
Satan & Adam (2018)
Saturday Night (2024)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Opening shot, 1 hour 19 minutes, 1 hour 23 minutes, 1 hour 52 minutes
Savage Attack (1987)
11 minutes
Say Yes (1986)
Scarred City (1998)
Scent of a Woman (1992)
1 hour 43 minutes, 1 hour 46 minutes
Scorpion with Two Tails (1982)
Scrooged (1988)
Sea of Love (1989)
Opening shot
Sean Combs: The Reckoning (2025)
Search and Destroy (1995)
43 minutes
Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
7 minutes
Secret in their Eyes (2015)
6 minutes, 10 minutes, 27 minutes (all on a poster)
The Secret of My Success (1987)
17 minutes, 37 minutes, 39 minutes, twice at 1 hour 6 minutes (Shot 1, Shot 2)
Secret of the Andes (1998)
Secrets (1992)
See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)
Opening shot, second shot, 49 minutes
Seed of Innocence (1980)
Senior Trip (1981)
14 minutes, 41 minutes (also a great video clip), 57 minutes, 1 hour 1 minute, 1 hour 22 minutes, 1 hour 29 minutes, 1 hour 33 minutes
Sensational Cities: New York (2000)
Documentary about the city of New York, but no discussion about the WTC itself.
16 minutes, 1 hour 7 minutes, 1 hour 9 minutes, 1 hour 14 minutes, 1 hour 28 minutes, 1 hour 30 minutes, several shots at 1 hour 38-39 minutes
Sensations (1988)
Senseless (1998)
Sentimental Journey (1984)
4 minutes, 33 minutes, 40 minutes
The Sentinel (1977)
14 minutes, 37 minutes, 59 minutes, 1 hour 29 minutes
Serpico (1973)
1 hour 55 minutes
The Seven Five (2014)
Three times at 2 minutes (Shot 1, Shot 2, Shot 3)
Severance (1988)
Sex and the Other Man (1995)
55 minutes, 1 hour 14-15 minutes
Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. (1991)
1 hour 9 minutes, 1 hour 17 minutes
Shades of Gray (1992)
6 minutes, 23 minutes
Shadow of a Doubt (1991)
Shadow Play (1986)
Shaft (2000)
38 minutes
Shaft (2019)
The Shaft (aka Down) (2001)
Opening shot, 44 minutes, 48 minutes, 1 hour 22 minutes, 1 hour 44 minutes
Shafted! (2000)
Shaft's Big Score! (1972)
Shakedown (1988)
At 1 hour 29 minutes there is a disturbing scene of a plane going in for an emergency landing, heading straight for the WTC towers. (Shot 1, Shot 2)
Shampoo Horns (1998)
1 hour 16 minutes
The Shamrock Conspiracy (1995)
Shamus (1973)
40 minutes
She-Devil (1989)
56 minutes
Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York (1975)
She's Back (1989)
She’s Gotta Have it (1986)
She's the One (1996)
27 minutes, 37 minutes
She Was Marked for Murder (1988)
Shin Kimagure Orange Road: Summer's Beginning (1996)
Shirli-myrli (1995)
Shoah (1985)
Shock and Awe (2017)
News footage from 9/11 between 9–11 minutes
Shoeshine (1987) (short)
Shooting Range (1979) (short)
Short Letter to the Long Goodbye (1978) (aka: Der kurze Brief zum langen Abschied)
Siao Yu (1995)
The Sicilian Clan (1969)
The Sicilian Connection (aka Afyon oppio) (1972)
55 minutes, 1 hour 1 minute, 1 hour 2 minutes
The Sicilian Connection (aka Pizza Connection) (1985)
Sid and Nancy (1986)
1 hour 45 minutes, 1 hour 46 minutes, 1 hour 47 minutes
Side Streets (1998)
Four times in the opening minute (Shot 1, Shot 2, Shot 3, Shot 4) 4 minutes, twice at 1 hour 4 minutes (Shot 1, Shot 2) 1 hour 42 minutes, 1 hour 52 minutes
Sidewalks of New York (2001)
Opening minutes, 4 minutes, 6 minutes, 53 minutes, 57 minutes, 1 hour 32 minutes
Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend (1981)
The Siege (1998)
7 minutes, 11 minutes, 21 minutes, 56 minutes, 1 hour 10 minutes, 1 hour 13 minutes, 1 hour 32 minutes
The Simian Line (2000)
Simply Irresistible (1999)
11 minutes, 49 minutes, 1 hour 1 minute
Sing (1989)
Sista Kontraktet (1998) (aka: The Last Contract)
Sistemo l'America e torno (1974) (aka: I Fix America and Return)
The Sister-in-Law (1974)
Sisters (1973)
9 minutes, 46 minutes, 57 minutes, 1 hour 3 minutes
Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
1 hour 42 minutes
Six Weeks (1982)
1 hour 15 minutes
The Sixth Man (1997)
16 acres (2012)
Many shots of the WTC towers in this documentary surrounding how to rebuild on the site after 9/11
66 Scenes from America (1982)
Skyline (1983)
Slammin Iron: Rebuilding the World (2005)
30 minutes – 37 minutes (9/11 footage)
Slaves of New York (1989)
1 hour 59 minutes
Sleepers (1996)
Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Sleepless in Seattle is mainly set in Seattle and Baltimore. But near the end of the movie, the action is centered around the Empire State Building and the WTC towers can be seen several times in the background starting at 1 hour 28 minutes (Shot 1, Shot 2, Shot 3, Shot 4, Shot 5)
Sleepwalk (1986)
Sleepy Heads (1997)
1 minute, 11 minutes, 13 minutes, 1 hour 16 minutes
The Sleepy Time Gal (2001)
2 minutes
A Slight Case of Murder (1999)
1 hour 26 minutes
Slipstream (2007)
Smell of Flesh (aka La Sbandata) (1974)
Twice in opening minute (Shot 1, Shot 2)
Smoke (1995)
Opening shot
Smokin' Aces 2 (2010)
Twice at 1 hour 21 minutes (during the closing credits) (Shot 1, Shot 2)
Snatch (2000)
5 minutes (in a photo on the wall)
Snowden (2016)
The Soldier (1982)
1 hour 22 minutes
Someone Else's America (1995)
Opening minute, 3 minutes, twice at 7 minutes (Shot 1, Shot 2), 1 hour 9 minutes, 1 hour 11 minutes
Someone Like You (2001)
20 minutes
Someone to Watch Over Me (1987)
17 minutes, 1 hour 5 minutes, 1 hour 8 minutes
Something In Between (aka: Nesto izmedju) (1982)
Something Short of Paradise (1979)
Opening shot, 9 minutes
Something Wild (1986)
Four times in the opening credits (Shot 1, Shot 2, Shot 3, Shot 4), 3 times between 1 hour 31-32 minutes (Shot 1, Shot 2, Shot 3)
Somewhere in the City (1998)
1 hour 17 minutes
The Song Remains the Same (1976)
1 hour 28 minutes, 1 hour 50 minutes, 1 hour 51 minutes, 1 hour 54 minutes
Sorority House Massacre (1986)
11 minutes, 1 hour
Sorry Haters (2007)
39 minutes, 41 minutes
(Also on the German poster)
Soup For One (1982)
19 minutes, 54 minutes
(Also on the poster)
Sour Grapes (1998)
24 minutes (on a poster)
The Space Between (2010)
News footage at 18 minutes, 19 minutes, 20 minutes, 31 minutes, 41 minutes
Special Bulletin (1983)
5 minutes (This basic shot is repeated throughout the movie)
Spike of Bensonhurst (1988)
39 minutes, 1 hour 20 minutes, 1 hour 24 minutes
Spiderman (2002)
Spiderman was released six months after the towers fell on 9/11. The movie makers did not want to offend victims' families by using the towers. The images were removed from the poster, but the towers can still be seen in the background at 26 minutes, in a reflection in Spiderman's eyes at 55 minutes, and another really quick background shot at 1 hour 55 minutes. Also removed from the movie (but in an early trailer, below) was a scene where Spiderman weaves a web between the towers to catch criminals in a helicopter.
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
42 minutes
Spider-Man Strikes Back (1978)
1 minute
Spider-Man: The Dragon’s Challenge (1979)
Spies, Lies & Naked Thighs (1988)
Splash (1984)
4 minutes, 29 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour 4 minutes, 1 hour 11 minutes, 1 hour 12 minutes, 1 hour 26 minutes
Splash, Too (1988)
Splatter University (1984)
Split Decisions (1988)
Opening shot
Spotlight (2015)
Spree (2020)
1 minute
Spy Games (1999)
Squadra Antifurto (1976)
Squadra Antigangsters (1979)
Squadra Antimafia (1978)
24 minutes (including a view through a window on the WTC observation floor), 27 minutes, 55 minutes
The Squeeze (1987)
31 minutes, 57 minutes, 1 hour, 1 hour 3 minutes, 1 hour 5 minutes, 1 hour 22 minutes
Stag (1997)
During the opening credits
Stairwell: Trapped in the World Trade Center (2002)
The Stand-in (1999)
19 minutes, 46 minutes, 1 hour 36 minutes
Star of Jaipur (1998) (aka Eve of Destruction)
1 minute, 59 minutes, 1 hour 13 minutes
Stardom (2000)
1 hour 5 minutes
Stars and Bars (aka: Un Senorito en Nueva York) (1988)
Startup.com (2001)
1 hour 1 minute
State of Grace (1990)
3 minutes, 7 minutes, 42 minutes
The Statue of Liberty (1985)
36 minutes, 56 minutes
Staying Alive (1983)
51 minutes
Stella (1990)
59 minutes
Stepmom (1998)
12 minutes
Sticky Fingers (1988)
2 minutes, 4 minutes
Still Life: The Fine Art of Murder (1990)
Stir Crazy (1980)
Opening shot
Stone Cold Dead (1979)
4 minutes, 1 hour 2 minutes
Stone Pillow (1985)
Stop Making Sense (1984)
The Story Lady (1991)
Story of a Junkie (1987)
1 hour, 1 hour 1 minute, 1 hour 14 minutes, 1 hour 15 minutes
Storytelling (2001)
Straight Out of Brooklyn (1991)
22 minutes, 1 hour 11 minutes
Strange Invaders (1983)
Strange Relations (2001)
Opening shot, 1 hour 25 minutes
A Stranger Among Us (1992)
Opening shot, 41 minutes
The Strangers in 7A (1972)
Opening shot
Strapped (1993)
Strays (1997)
Opening shot
Street Fighter 2 (1994)
Street Hunter (1990)
17 minutes, 39 minutes, 48-50 minutes
Street Justice (1987)
12 minutes, 13 minutes, 15 minutes
Street Trash (1987)
Strictly Business (1991)
26 minutes, 33 minutes, 1 hour 3 minutes
Strike Force (1975)
Stroszek (1977)
Stuart Little (1999)
Three times between 49-50 minutes (Shot 1, Shot 2, Shot 3) 57 minutes
Stuck on You! (1983)
49 minutes
The Stuff (1985)
5 minutes
The Stuff That Dreams are Made Of (aka: Der Stoff aus dem die Träume sind) (1972)
1 hour 48 minutes, 1 hour 50 minutes
The Substitute 2: School's Out (1998)
Twice at 2 minutes (Shot 1, Shot 2) 35 minutes, 40 minutes, 1 hour 12 minutes
The Suburbans (1999)
54 minutes
Subway Riders (1981)
1 hour 49 minutes, 1 hour 54 minutes
SUBWAYStories: Tales from the Underground (1997)
Sudden Death (1985)
Sugar Hill (1994)
1 hour 35 minutes
The Suitors (1988)
Suits (1999)
Summertime Killer (1972)
6 minutes
Sundae in New York (1983) (short)
Sunday (1997)
Twice in the first minute (Shot 1, Shot 2), 1 hour 1 minute, 1 hour 8 minutes
Sunset Park (1996)
The Sunshine Boys (1995)
1 hour 29 minutes
Sunshine Hotel (2001)
56 minutes, 58 minutes
Superfly (1972)
Supergirl (1984)
17 minutes
Superguy: Behind the Cape (2000)
Superman: The Movie (1978)
56 minutes, 1 hour 4 minutes, 1 hour 13 minutes, 1 hour 14 minutes, 1 hour 27 minutes, 1 hour 31 minutes
Superman II (1980)
5 minutes, 1 hour 34 minutes, 1 hour 54 minutes
Superman III (1983)
1 hour 33 minutes
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
12 minutes, 27 minutes, 28 minutes, 44 minutes, 52 minutes, 58 minutes, 1 hour 2 minutes, 1 hour 3 minutes
Supersonic Man (1979)
13 minutes, 45 minutes, 1 hour 7 minutes
Super Mario Brothers (1993)
4 minutes, 6 minutes, 13 minutes, 17 minutes, 1 hour 30 minutes
The Super Ninja (1984)
Surviving 9/11 (2021)
Stock images, recreations, news footage from 9/11 throughout
Survivor (2015)
The Survivors (1983)
Opening Shot
Switch (1991)
4 minutes, 7 minutes, 1 hour 26 minutes, 1 hour 29 minutes
Sylvie (1973)
(Also a video clip shot from a helicopter)