A film won a Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2000; it was not freed until June 2000 in Switzerland and not until November 2000 in the United States.

Michael Douglas provides the thin narration throughout the film.

The Film
A picture show begins sustaining interviews by using a married woman of a bit of of the slain jock, including Ankie Spitzer, married woman of Andre Spitzer. These are too features an locate by using Jamal Al-Gashey, a merely living terrorist (the rest with been flushed in the attack or even in the future per Mossad), who is around hiding within Africa. He wears the cap & shades & his face is slightly blurred.

There are various shots of a games developing afoot, & attention is given to a lax security the Germans got at the games.

the terrorists come seen preparing for the attack: Al-Gashey, a member of Black September, says he and a more members were trained around Libya before going to Germany to begin a attack.

A attack is described by Al-Gashey too when occasionally of the German security staff present. Footage of ABC anchor Jim McKay is interspersed, along with healthy clips of Peter Jennings, to provide a when-it-happened approach.

A film alleges that a deliverance operation wwhen ill planned & executed: a snipers were non prepared, too as existence placed wrong. A film implies that got a German government prepared better, a jock may have been saved.

A film as well alleges that a October 29 hijacking of a German Lufthansa jet and the subsuqent release of the ternary Black September members existence held for test in the killings was a placed-higher per German government.

Companion book
Reeve, S. (Just released York, 2001), ''A single Day inside September: a to the full story of the 1972 Munich Olympic mass murder & Israeli retaliation operation 'Wrath of God' '' ISBN 1559705477