| | | 1972. The Munich Olympic Games. 121 Nations. 7123 Competitors. Over a billion viewers...and 8 Palestinian Terrorists. For the first time in over 25 years, the truth is revealed.
Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Widescreen, Dolby Surround Sound, English, French, Spanish, Subtitled
One Day In September is the incredible, shocking Academy Award-winning (Best Documentary Feature, 1999) story about the brutal massacre of Israeli soldiers, by a team of extreme Palestinian terrorists during the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany. Finally, the unbelievable truth is revealed: how eight terrorists easily snuck into the Olympic Village and took 11 innocent athletes hostage, the tension-filled negotiations that follow and the shocking conclusion at a German airport that stunned the world. Featuring the frightening perspective of the only surviving terrorist and revelatory facts about what really happened on that dark night. Produced by Academy Award-winner Arthur Cohn (American Dream, The Garden Of The Finzi-Continis), directed by Kevin MacDonald (Donald Cammell: The Ultimate Performance) and narrated by Michael Douglas, One Day In September unfolds like a gripping thriller--except this unforgettable story is completely true.
"Gripping! Important and impressive!" New York Daily News
"Absolutely brilliant!" Larry King, CNN
"Compelling!" Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly
Editor's Note
ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER is a unique and powerful documentary that tells an important story in an exciting and dramatic style that one doesn't typically associate with the genre. The film is about the Black September terrorist action at the 1972 Munich Olympics. It relies on interviews and archival news footage of the actual events, which personalize the story of the doomed Israeli athletes and the Palestinian terrorists who held them captive while the world held its collective breath. Also documented, in painful detail, is the astonishing ineptitude and indifference of the West German police and the insensitivity of the International Olympic Committee. Director Kevin MacDonald makes excellent use of news footage, promotional films, and the music of the early 1970s. He also uses interviews with many of those involved, including an on-camera interview with surviving terrorist Jamal Al Gashey and an in-depth interview with Ankie Spitzer, the widow of one of the Israeli coaches who was killed. But what makes the film so compelling is the shrewd way MacDonald brings these elements together to make a suspenseful, heartbreaking record of this tragic event. MacDonald sought to make a "documentary thriller" with this film, and he succeeded.
| Features | Bonus Trailers | | Talent Files | | Widescreen Version | | English 2-Channel Dolby Surround | | German 2-Channel Dolby Surround | | Scene Selection | | Direct Link To The Simon Wisenthal Center Website | | Digitally Mastered Audio & Anamorphic Video | | English Subtitles | | Interactive Menus | | Production Notes |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Columbia Tri-Star |
| Release Date: 2/13/2001 |
| Running Time: 94 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2000 | | Catalog ID: 06358 | | UPC: 00043396063587 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (2000) |  | Arthur Cohn, Kevin Macdonald, Winner, Best Documentary, Feature |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...An important and properly disturbing film..." 11/17/2000 p.E29Rolling Stone
"...For its penetrating excavation of the nationalist motives at play during the Munich massacre, this film rates an impressive score..." 09/28/2000 p.66 Los Angeles Times
"...An unnerving, highly dramatic documentary....This is a story that can't help but involve us....Macdonald and his team have done a remarkable job..." 11/17/2000 p.C16 USA Today
"...An endlessly gripping chronicle of the attack by Palestinian terrorists on Israeli athletes, the movie features a wealth of interviews..." 04/27/2001 p.10E Total Film
"...Macdonald has produced a work of restraint....One of the year's most shattering films..." 11/01/2000 p.118 The New York Times 8 of 10
The world became both smaller and bleaker on Sept 5, 1972... Reliving those events with chilling immediacy is the grim accomplishment of One Day In September... this is an important and properly disturbing film. It is a potent reminder that the world remains not only small but dangerous as well. - Ron Wertheimer
Salon.com 9 of 10
...shatteringly intelligent documentary about how a cruel, quixotic plan...climaxed in a bloody firefight at a military airport and the massacre of the hostages. This brave, incendiary movie... portrays human life sacrificed to public relations---all under the banner of Olympian peace, love and understanding... - Michael Sragow
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