‘January 6th’ Documentary From ‘9/11’ Filmmakers Gets Discovery+ Premiere Date
deadline.comDiscovery+ has set a premiere date for its feature documentary January 6th from 9/11 filmmakers Gédéon and Jules Naudet. The pic will stream January 5, just ahead of the two-year anniversary of the attack on the U.S.
Capitol. See the new poster below. Told from the unique perspective of the heroes, first responders and survivors of the attack, January 6th is billed as an apolitical story of resilience and bravery.
It features House Speaker Nancy Pelosi; D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee III; Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) and more than 50 senators, representatives, staffers from both sides of the aisle; and police officers as they reveal their experience of the infamous day in American history.
It is the only documentary for which the Capitol and Metropolitan Police Departments granted full access to their officers, Discovery+ said. “January 6th is the complete story of the attack on the Capitol told by those who witnessed the chaos firsthand,” said the Naudet brothers, who also helmed the 2018 docuseries November 13: Attack on Paris. “From the beginning, we knew we wanted to tell the story of this unprecedented moment in history as a human event and without political bias.
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