September 5 (2024)

Set during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. The ABC Sports broadcasting team must quickly shift from sports reporting to live coverage when terrorists invade the housing unit at the Olympic village where the Israeli team are residing. Directed by Tim Fehlbaum (TIDES). Taking a documentary film like approach with a relatively little known ensemble cast (Peter Sarsgaard is probably the biggest "name" in the cast), director Fehlbaum has made an intense thriller out of a tragic situation that we already know the outcome of. The human element is at the forefront as the broadcast team make mistakes, argue among themselves and desperately improvise perhaps not knowing they are making broadcast history. Like the superb UNITED 93 (2006), it takes a real life catastrophe and focuses on the facts and keeps the dramatic license melodrama to a bare minimum. Its screenplay received an Oscar nomination. With John Magaro, Ben Chaplin, Leonie Benesch and Corey Johnson.