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On September 5, 1972, during the Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, terrorists took the Israeli team hostage, and later killed 11 athletes in a shootout. On the scene was the ABC Sports team. They were in Munch to cover the Olympics, but quickly pivoted from sports to covering the international terrorist attack unfolding before their eyes. Their experience is the subject of a new, propulsive thriller September 5—nominated at the Golden Globes tonight for Best Motion Picture (Drama).

“We wanted to capture the frenetic pace of it all, how there was almost no room to breathe as this all unfolded,” September 5 director Tim Fehlbaum explains. “Speaking with the people who were there covering this horrible event in front of their eyes, it’s clear there was a movie to be made here.”

He added, “You can’t separate the news today from what happened back in 1972, so of course there are some similarities. And the world we are living in today will undoubtedly have an influence on what people think when they see this movie. But really, our film is about a moment in media history, a turning point in the way news event were covered. My hope is that more broadly it will cause us to reflect on our current media environment.”

September 5 was released in select theaters in New York, Los Angeles and Toronto in mid-December, and will be in theaters nationwide starting January 17, 2025, so it will be some time before the historical thriller is on streaming.

Because the film is from Paramount Pictures, when it is eventually streaming, it will be on Paramount+. We’ll update this as soon as we learn more about September 5’s streaming premiere.

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