

September 5
The day terror went live.
During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $852K
- Language
- German
- palestinian-israeli conflict
- olympic games
- 1970s
- journalism
- munich, germany
- based on true story
- terrorism
- hostage situation
- television broadcast
- moral dilemma
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereTelluride Film Festival31 Aug 2024
- PremiereHamptons International Film Festival12 Oct 2024
- PremierePhiladelphia Film Festival17 Oct 2024
- PremiereSanta Fe International Film Festival19 Oct 2024
- PremiereOrcas Island Film Festival20 Oct 2024
- PremiereChicago International Film Festival22 Oct 2024
- PremiereNewport Beach Film Festival23 Oct 2024
- PremiereAFI Fest, Austin Film Festival26 Oct 2024
- PremiereSCAD Savannah Film Festival27 Oct 2024
- PremiereDenver Film Festival9 Nov 2024
- Theatrical (limited)R13 Dec 2024
- Theatrical (limited)RLimited Expansion17 Jan 2025
- Digital / OTTR4 Feb 2025
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical156 Feb 2025
- Digital / OTT158 Apr 2025
- Physical15Blu-ray / DVD 14 Apr 2025
AustraliaAU
- PremiereEuropa Film Festival16 Jan 2025
- TheatricalM6 Feb 2025
CanadaCA
- Theatrical (limited)PGMonday Mystery Movie9 Dec 2024
- TheatricalPG17 Jan 2025
American SamoaAS
- Digital / OTT3 Feb 2025
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical+1327 Feb 2025
AustriaAT
- Theatrical129 Jan 2025
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical19 Feb 2025
BrazilBR
- PremiereFestival do Rio8 Oct 2024
- Theatrical1230 Jan 2025
ChileCL
- Theatrical1430 Jan 2025
ColombiaCO
- Theatrical27 Feb 2025
CroatiaHR
- Theatrical6 Mar 2025
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September 5 was released on 7 November 2024.
Audience reviews
3- B6/10
Brent Marchant
1/12/2025
It’s invariably disappointing when a movie you’ve been looking forward to seeing doesn’t live up to expectations. But such is the case with the latest offering from writer-director Tim Fehlbaum. This re-creation of the day when Black September terrorists took members of the Israeli Olympic team hostage at the 1972 Munich Summer Games, sadly, misses the mark on many fronts. As told from the perspective of the ABC spor…
- R9/10
r96sk
2/6/2025
<em>'September 5'</em> is based upon a true story, one that I had somehow not really known about - despite being into sports, albeit not a big Olympics guy. The event in question did ring tiny bells in my head pre-watch, but oddly not as much as other Olympic events would have. As such, I didn't actually know how this story was going to play out. That was actually very beneficial, as I was moving up and down with …
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
2/13/2025
I worked in sports broadcasting for 30 years, including at the Olympics in Atlanta when a story of a similar nature to this one broke around the bombing in Centennial Park. Even though we’d moved on a few decades since this scenario, there are still similarities that ring true between this representation of what might have happened in the studio gallery of ABC and what happened in 1996. They are off the air and every…
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