![]() By the time the authorities reached his room, he had made himself his final casualty. Loosing a hail of more than 1,000 bullets, he took the lives of 60 attendees, injured over 400 others, and left hundreds more wounded in the ensuing stampede for safe cover. The Route 91 Harvest Festival had convened 22,000 country music fans on the Las Vegas Strip, a valley flanked by luxury hotels, one of which provided a perch to a lone gunman armed with an arsenal of 24 firearms. ![]() In second-by-second detail reconstructed through a mosaic of footage from cellphones, police officers’ body cameras, and CCTV setups, the four-part series recounts a night of surreal terror and inspiring heroism. ![]() The biggest balancing act was how you get this to be so visceral that audience members fortunate enough not to have experienced a mass casualty incident still understand it in an authentic and deep way, and how you do that without re-traumatizing anyone.” So, how do you continue to engage people? You tell it through the archive, through the journeys of people with unexpected stories. “But the news moves on, people go to the next headline. “If you’re touched, if one of your loved ones is affected by this, it never goes away,” director Jeff Zimbalist tells the Guardian. The creators of 11 Minutes, a new documentary miniseries streaming on Paramount Plus, want to break one harrowing day out of the numbing stream of bad news.
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