it is called "rebirth" and the director, jim whitaker is with us. also tonight, lindsey buckingham. his north american tour kicks off on friday. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where wal-mart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and answer, help tavis improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: "rebirth" is the acclaimed new film from jim whitaker, which follows five people and their personal connection to the attacks of 9/11. it made its debut on sunday and is now playing in new york and in l.a.. sunday is the 10th anniversary of 9/11. you can see the film on showtime. here are now some scenes from "rebirth." >> on caught between have and to move on, but i do not want t

is the director of "rebirth," jim whitaker.morning, alex. >> talk to me about the concept of the film and how you came up with this idea. >> i visited ground zero a month after september 11th with my wife and i was there looking at the debris and the wreckage and i had this obviously this sense of dread and anxiety. but as i looked around, i started to kind of have an imagination that the place might look different one day and had a sense actually for a moment, a sense of hope, and i thought how could i bring that experience of that dread and anxiety and hope to an audience in a short period of time? and i just decided the best way to do it would be to literally show it, put up cameras around ground zero that would take a frame of film every five minutes 24 hours a day and follow the site as it progressed and eventually begin a process of following five people, once a year, every year in interviews over a ten-year period. so the film's about the physical and emotional healing of the site over time. >> that's an extraordinary co

. >> what a film, jim whitaker. the director of rebirth. i watched it last night.ish someone had given me the heads up, i need kleenex. in an ins prague al way. we met tanya who lost her fiancee, one of five people you chronicle in this doc. can you begin with ton i can't and run down the five individuals we meet in your film. >> sure. tanya lost her fiancee and her story is really about letting go and the possibility of love and actually coming to a place where she can actually fall in love and have a family. ling was on the impact floor. ling young and she sustained burns over about a third of her body. hers is kind of a struggle of the physical loss that happened. and then what's great about her, is the sort of spirit within her that emerges where she realizes, you know, i can look at life in a different way and become a different person. next a young boy, he was 15 at the time and through the course of the film, we watch him grow up. he becomes a man. brian lions is a construction worker. he goes down to the site in order to find his brother who he lost and bas

it is called "rebirth" and the director, jim whitaker is with us. also tonight, lindsey buckingham. his north american tour kicks off on friday. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we