Jules and Gédéon Naudet

Jules Clément Naudet (born April 1973) and Thomas Gédéon Naudet (born March 1970) are French-American filmmakers. The brothers, residents of the United States since 1989 and citizens since 1999, were in <a href="/facts/New_York_City/YlyvFmVC">New York City</a> at the time of the <a href="/facts/September_11_attacks/PfWQcQNx">September 11 attacks</a> to film a documentary on members of the Engine 7, Ladder 1 <a href="/facts/Fire_station/qn8R6kCs">firehouse</a> in <a href="/facts/Lower_Manhattan/bl6eMMHK">Lower Manhattan</a>.
Jules captured the clearest footage of the first airplane, <a href="/facts/American_Airlines_Flight_11/WMasj9ua">American Airlines Flight 11</a>, hitting the <a href="/facts/1_World_Trade_Center_(1970%25E2%2580%25932001)/UqmoMxrn">North Tower</a> of the <a href="/facts/World_Trade_Center_(1973%25E2%2580%25932001)/mtSktMFe">World Trade Center</a> when he rode with Battalion 1 to investigate a suspected gas leak in a storm drain at the intersection of Church and Lispenard streets while filming a documentary about the FDNY. The footage shot in 2001 was made into the 2002 documentary <a href="/facts/9%2f11_(2002_film)/rfr84uPp">9/11</a>. The video camera that Jules was using that captured Flight 11 crashing into the World Trade Center is now on display in the <a href="/facts/National_Museum_of_American_History/cBQI5aWu">National Museum of American History</a> in <a href="/facts/Washington%2c_D.C./enXPK156">Washington, D.C.</a>

Jules and Gédéon Naudet open-in-new

Jules and Gédéon Naudet