Media Portrayal
- Films
- Children of Beslan (2005), a HBO Documentary Films and BBC co-production, produced and directed by Ewa Ewart and Leslie Woodhead, nominated in three different categories under the 2006 Emmy Award festival, and awarded the Royal Television Society prize in the category Best Single Documentary
- The Beslan Siege (2005), a TV-documentary by October Films, directed by Richard Alwyn and produced by Liana Pomeranzev, won the Prix Italia Documentary Award for 2006
- Return to Beslan (Terug naar Beslan) (2005) A Dutch documentary produced by Netherlands Public Broadcasting, won an Emmy Award in 2005 for "Best Continuing News Coverage"
- Three Days in September (2006), directed by Joe Halderman and narrated by Julia Roberts
- Beslan (in development), a feature film to be produced by Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment.
- Music
- "Living Shields" by After Forever
- " Leaves of Beslan" by Giovanni Allevi
- Books
- House of Meetings, by Martin Amis, references this massacre several times, in part to show how deeply skeptical Russian citizens were of government-disseminated information.
- Beslan: The Tragedy of School Number 1 by Timothy Phillips
- Innocent Targets: When Terrorism Comes to School is a school terrorism textbook that features a chapter dedicated to the incident as well as several other chapters devoted to commentary on the topic in general.
- Terror at Beslan: A Russian Tragedy with Lessons for America's Schools by John Giduck, Foreword by Lt. Col Dave Grossman.
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