In Popular Culture
The World Trade Center was an iconic structure and has been featured in numerous films as well as appearing in many television shows, cartoons, comic books, video games and music videos. Perhaps the most notable films it featured in were Godspell (1973), the second King Kong film (1976), Trading Places (1983) and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992).
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