‘September 5’ Review: Taut, Media-Critical Control-Room Drama Reveals How a Hostage Crisis Forever Changed TV News
On Sept. 5, 1972, millions watched a tense international hostage situation unfold live on ABC television, as members of a militant Palestinian faction calling itself Black September infiltrated the Olympic Village in Munich, Germany, and held the Israeli team hostage. In “September 5,” we watch the sports crew of an American TV network step up […]