More Information about Brenda Berkman, a select listing

Websites and films:

Brenda Berkman art website

Monumental Women history organization

Interviews for PBS Makers, short excerpt 1

Interviews for PBS Makers, short excerpt 2

Longer interview PBS/AOL documentary project on the second wave of feminism Makers, Becoming a Firefighter

A profile done by Women You Should Know on the tenth anniversary of 9-11

PBS documentary Taking the Heat about Brenda Berkman’s FDNY career Part 1

PBS documentary Taking the Heat about Brenda Berkman’s FDNY career Part 2

PBS documentary Taking the Heat about Brenda Berkman’s FDNY career Part 3

Brief film about an exhibit of Thirty-six Views of One World Trade Center, at the Charles P. Sifton Gallery, federal courthouse of the Eastern District of New York

Smithsonian documentary: “A 9/11 First Responder Heals Through Art

A short film highlighting the 9/11 stories of Brenda Berkman and Cathy Langford, moderated by Judith Pucci from the “We Were There” series created by the 9/11 Tribute Museum in partnership with the 9/11 Memorial 

Spike Lee HBO doc NYC Epicenter (2021)

Netflix series Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror (2021)

WNET Metrofocus

Soledad O’Brien, Beyond Bravery

The first video about women 9/11 first responders made by Legal Momentum

Websites and films:

Women’s Media Center Live, interviews by Robin Morgan (2012, 2016) - 1

Women’s Media Center Live, interviews by Robin Morgan (2012, 2016) - 2

NYU Law Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network, interview by Jeannie Forrest (2017)

Stay Tuned with Preet, interviews by Preet Bharara (2019, 2020) - 1

Stay Tuned with Preet, interviews by Preet Bharara (2019, 2020) - 2

WNYC, “Brenda Berkman: NYC's First Female Firefighter. September 11 Responder. Artist.”

WFAE/The 19th

Whit Missildine, This Is Actually Happening 204: “The Long Shadow Part 3: What if You Fought the Fire?”

Books and articles:

Hagen and Carouba, The Women at Ground Zero (2002)

Latour, Sisters in the Brotherhoods (2008)

Cole et al ed., This Day in the Life (2005)

Morgan, ed. Sisterhood is Forever (2003)

Flanders, ed. The W Effect (2004)

Lewis, When to Jump (2018)

Spivack, Worn in New York (2017)

Dunn and Lacombe, The Female Lead (2017)

Rinker, Send a Girl! (2021), children’s book.                    

NYU Law Magazine, “A Firefighter and a Trailblazer”