The events of September 5, 1972 have lingered with director Tim Fehlbaum since the start of his career: Studying film The post September 5 Director Tim Fehlbaum on Making a Terrorist Movie That’s Also About You appeared first on MovieMaker Magazine.

While the Oscar-winning documentary One Day in September and Steven Spielberg’s Munich granted audiences a wider snapshot of the hostage crisis and its aftermath, the minutiae of the pioneering news coverage that cemented the tragedy in the global consciousness had remained largely untouched by the cinematic industry.

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Director, writer and producer Tim Fehlbaum and writer Moritz Binder took guests behind their riveting thriller “September 5,” about the game-changing, real-time broadcast coverage of the 1972 Munich massacre from the perspective of the sports broadcasters who raced to cover the events,

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September 5 documents ABC Sports’ intense coverage of the 1972 Munich Olympics, where the Palestinian militant group Black September took Israeli athletes hostage. The film offers an intimate look at the control room as ABC producers, directors, and top executives navigated the unprecedented tragedy in real-time.