About the Movie
Showing Wednesday, February 4 at 1:30pm and 7:00pm in the Belushi Performance Hall
September 5 follows the ABC sports coverage team at the 1972 Munich Olympics, as their focus switches from the games to the Israeli athletes' hostage situation.
September 5 film trailer (click on image below)
Themes and Topics
Munich 1972 Summer Olympics
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Munich massacre". Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Aug. 2025, https://www.britannica.com/event/Munich-Massacre. Accessed 30 October 2025.
Farrell, Courtney. Terror at the Munich Olympics. Essential Library, 2010. EBSCOhost, research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=caafabf5-d8f1-35d5-b9fe-64b20b9a8d13.
Schiller, Kay, and Christopher Young. The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany. 1st ed., University of California Press, 2010, https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520947580.
Reviews
Dargis , Manohla. “‘September 5’ Review: When the Munich Games Changed Our News.” The New York Times, The New York Times Company , 25 Feb. 2025, www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/movies/september-5-review.html.
Seitz , Matt Zoller. “September 5 Movie Review & Film Summary (2024).” Roger Ebert, Ebert Digital LLC, 13 Dec. 2024, www.rogerebert.com/reviews/september-5-film-review.
About Germany
“Villingen - Bickenstraße” by Daniel Mennerich, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
“Country Business Guide: Germany .” AtoZ International Business, World Trade Press, https://library.cod.edu/atozinternationalbusiness (Click link and search for "Germany")
"Germany." Britannica Academic, Encyclopædia Britannica, 20 May. 2025. academic.eb.com/levels/collegiate/article/Germany/106260. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.