In Popular Culture
- The completed tower can be seen, along with the other completed World Trade Center towers, in the 2011 video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, which is set in 2016.
- The tower is seen under construction in the 2012 film The Avengers, whose third act takes place in New York City. The alternate opening sequence features a prolonged shot of Lower Manhattan with One World Trade Center in view. This footage was shot in the spring of 2011.
- The tower is seen under construction in the 2012 film The Dictator during a helicopter tour of New York City.
- At the end of the 2012 film Men in Black 3, when main character J stands atop the Chrysler Building, the tower can be seen under construction as the camera pans across the city.
- The unfinished tower can be seen in the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises as part of the Gotham City skyline.
- An animation of the Lower Manhattan skyline, including the completed tower and World Trade Center site, is seen when the circus arrives in New York City in the 2012 film Madagascar 3.
- Two duplicate Freedom Towers are seen completed in the future New York skyline in the 2030s in the 2006 film Click.
- The completed tower can be seen, along with the other completed World Trade Center towers, in the 2008 film Babylon A.D., where the High Priestess has her office in Two World Trade Center.
- The completed tower is seen in a war-torn Manhattan in the year 2021 in the Fringe episode The Last Sam Weiss. It seems to show that in the series' universe, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum was not dedicated until 2021; in reality, the memorial was dedicated in 2011. It is later seen at various points in the fifth season, set in a dystopian 2036.
- The tower is seen in the Doctor Who episode The Angels Take Manhattan, which is set in 2012.
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