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The Munich massacre was a terrorist attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, carried out by eight members of the Palestinian militant organisation Black September. The militants infiltrated the Olympic Village, killed two members of the Israeli Olympic team, and took nine other Israeli team members hostage. Those hostages ...
Films about the Munich massacre (1972), a terrorist attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, carried out by eight members of the Palestinian militant organisation Black September. The militants infiltrated the Olympic Village, killed two members of the Israeli Olympic team, and took nine other Israeli team members hostage ...
One Day in September is a 1999 documentary film directed by Kevin Macdonald examining the 5 September 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. Michael Douglas provides the sparse narration throughout the film. The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 72nd Academy Awards, on 26 ...
At the 1972 Munich Olympics, Arab terrorists took the Israeli team hostage. Former news and sports exec Sean McManus, son of ABC Sports commentator Jim McKay, looks back on that tragedy, and of ...
STORY: On September 5, 1972, Palestinian gunmen from the radical Black September ground took members of the Israeli Olympic team at the poorly secured athletes' village.Within 24 hours, 11 ...
While the Munich Olympics terrorist attack has been the subject of several previous films, including Steven Spielberg’s “Munich” (2005) and the 1999 documentary “One Day in September,” “September 5” – a kind of combination of “Spotlight” and “Rear Window” – keeps its focus entirely on the broadcast that culminated in ...
Afif Ahmed Hamid (d. 5 September 1972) was a Palestinian terrorist and one of eight Black September members that invaded the Israeli quarters at the Munich Olympic Village during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, taking hostage nine members of the Israeli Olympic delegation after killing Israeli wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg and weightlifter Yossef Romano in the initial takeover.
In "September 5," ABC Sports executive Roone Arledge (Peter Sarsgaard, far left), addresses his team as they are about to use then-new satellite technology to go from broadcasting the 1972 Munich ...