As the World Watched is a documentary film that covered the final moments of the passengers and crew on board United Airlines Flight 175, which was the second commercial airliner to strike the World Trade Center, impacting the South Tower, and was the most visually documented flight during the September 11 attacks. The documentary features interviews with a variety of people, including: relatives of the passengers and crew members, air traffic controllers who responded to the doomed flight, and the two F-15 fighter pilots scrambled from Otis Air National Guard Base who flew in the airspace over Lower Manhattan during the event.