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Today, the trial of terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui featured harrowing, never-before-heard cockpit tapes from United Airlines Flight 93, whose passengers and crew prevented terrorist hijackers from reaching their intended target in Washington.

Meanwhile, this week's Time magazine previews the first big-screen movie that deals with 9/11.

Trailers for "United 93," which arrives in theaters on April 28, have been so disturbing to some moviegoers that they have been pulled in some theaters.

"Many people will certainly feel they're not ready to see the film," writes Time critic Richard Corliss. "And that's fine. But it's honorable and artful as a re-creation of history, and as a film experience it's both unbearable and unmissable."

"If this is a horror movie," Corliss adds, "it is an edifying one."

The story also notes how the movie's writer-director, Paul Greengrass ("The Bourne Supremacy," "Bloody Sunday"), chose to cast actors whose backgrounds often reflected those of the real-life characters they portray.

For instance, Greensboro's Sandy Bradshaw, a flight attendant, is played by Trish Gates, who has herself worked as a United flight attendant.

Gates tells Time: "United made a poster of the crew, and I didn't know anybody, but I had always stared at Sandy Bradshaw's picture. Don't ask me why."

This is not the first Flight 93 film. Cable's A&E network aired a solid, restrained production in August that attracted record ratings for the channel.

But I get the impression that this production will be more powerful. And more disturbing.