George W. Bush sits for what National Geographic calls the most in-depth on-camera interview he has ever given about September 11, 2001. He walks through the morning minute by minute, from learning a plane had hit the World Trade Center to the decisions made aboard Air Force One and in the days that followed, describing the moment as one of "incredible disbelief." The film cuts between this interview and archival footage and materials drawn from his presidential library, tracking his choices both as commander in chief weighing military action in Afghanistan and as a man worried about his own family and fellow citizens. He also addresses the criticism that followed his administration's response, including the decision to invade Iraq. There are no other officials or historians here to counter or contextualize his account; the film is built entirely around Bush's own recollection, offering one participant's version of decisions that shaped the following decade of American foreign policy.