Fleming Community Library

Dramatizes the events leading up to Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City.

On August 7, 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between the New York World Trade Center's twin towers. After dancing for nearly an hour on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to jail before he was finally released.

A look at the high-wire walk made by Philippe Petit in 1974 between the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in New York City, and how it is still considered one of history's most artistic crimes.

In 1974, Philippe Petit assembled a team to help him achieve his dream of walking between the World Trade Center towers.