39 years ago today, on August 7, 1974, street performer Philippe Petit traversed a tightrope between the Twin Towers in what many later called the “artistic crime of the century.” With no safety ...

In 1974, just a year after the Twin Towers were completed, French tightrope artist Philip Petit set out to achieve his ultimate goal: to string and walk a wire between the Towers. The original CBS ...

"Man on Wire" challenges our conceptions of human capabilities and limitations, and it doubles as a fascinating portrait of the artist as the burglar, as Marsh uses blurred, black-and-white ...

A memorable event in the life of the World Trade Center came in the summer of 1974, while the still-unfinished (and largely unrented) towers were courting financial disaster and facing a barrage of ...

Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Philippe Petit in The Walk, lying on a wire between the Twin Towers. Image via Sony Pictures For what has seemed like an eternity, the topic of the Twin Towers has been a grim ...