September 5 (2024) on Netflix
R20241h 31mDramaHistoryThriller
The 1972 Munich Olympics: the ABC Sports crew is covering the Games when gunshots are heard and nine Israeli athletes are taken hostage. Geoffrey Mason moves the broadcast from sports to news.
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Plot summary
ABC Sports has come to Munich for the 1972 Summer Olympics, and its president, Roone Arledge, builds the coverage around the emotions of the Games. Overnight, gunshots are heard and the control room picks up police radio traffic. Marianne Gebhardt, a German translator working with the crew, follows the broadcasts as the news emerges: the group Black September has entered the Israeli team's apartment and is holding nine athletes hostage, with a demand for the release of Palestinian prisoners. Geoffrey Mason, who runs the control room, turns the crew from sports to live news. He and Arledge bargain for airtime and find a way into the closed Olympic village, while Marvin Bader, the head of operations, warns that real lives are at stake.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about September 5 (2024)
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- A closing title card in September 5 states that the Munich massacre was the first time a terrorist attack had been broadcast on live television, with an audience of roughly 900 million people, making it one of the most viewed broadcasts in history.
- September 5 leans heavily on archival footage from ABC's coverage of the 1972 Summer Olympics and the hostage crisis, and director Tim Fehlbaum and his team spent months researching before building an authentic replica of the ABC Sports broadcasting facility with their production design team.
