The 1972 Olympic Games, held in Munich, Germany were to be the Olympics of Peace and Joy, forever erasing the memory of the Nazi-controlled Berlin games of 1936. But a combination of inadequate security and profound unpreparedness instead led to 21 hours of terror. As the world looked on in disbelief, an extreme separatist group of Palestinians calling themselves Black September entered the sleeping quarters of the athletes from Israel, killing some of the team members and holding the rest hostage.
Production Passion Pictures [gb]; Arthur Cohn Productions; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) [gb]; British Screen Productions [gb](collaboration); Dan Valley Film AG; European Co-production Fund [gb](collaboration); Soros Documentary Fund of the Open Society Movement [il](support);
Cast Names Howard Cosell; Peter Jennings; Jim McKay; Mark Spitz; Michael Douglas; Ankie Spitzer; Jamal Al Gashey; Gerald Seymour; Axel Springer; Gad Zahari; Shmuel Lalkin; Manfred Schreiber; Walter Troger; Ulrich K. Wegener; Hans-Dietrich Genscher; Schlomit Romajo; Magdi Gahary; Zvi Zamir; Dan Shillon; Heinz Hohensinn; Esther Roth; Hans Jochen Vogel; Anouk Spitzer;
Box Office USD 155,158
Release Date 1999-10-22 (Los Angeles, California)
Genres Documentary; History; Sport;
MPAA Rating [?] Rated R for some graphic violent images