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- One Day In September
Director: Kevin MacDonald Producers: John Battsek, Arthur Cohn A Passion PIctures/Arthur Cohn Production. The 1972 Munich Olympics were billed as the ‘Olympics of Peace and Joy’ but became the Olympics of terror. An extreme Palestinian group called Black September held 11 Israeli athletes hostage in the Olympic village while the world looked on, incredulous. Using extraordinary archive footage including the only surviving member of the Black September group, the film tells the dramatic story of what happened during those 21 hours in Munich. Winner: Academy Award - Best Feature Documentary, 2000. Winner: Emmy Award - Best Historical Documentary, 2001. ''An inventive and gripping example of the genre... a true life account structured more like a race-against-the-clock conspiracy thriller - only with real lives at stake - ...a fast-moving, edge-of-the-seat story...snapping all the rules of stuffy documentaries...deserves to find as big an audience as any Hollywood multiplexer...A compelling account of one of the blackest episodes in Olympic history, this Oscar-winning documentary-thriller is impressively shot and assembled benefiting from a wide range of perspectives. A human tragedy laid bare, with powerful and at times painful immediacy" Tom Dawson, TOTAL FILM "Startlingly original..…a brilliant movie" Peter Matthews, SIGHT & SOUND ''This powerful documentary...succeeds both as a portrait of a complex political situation, and as a compelling human drama" HARPERS & QUEEN ''A riveting combination of investigative reportage and powerfully employed archival footage'' Michael Dwyer , Irish Times ''A superb piece of work. Gripping and beautifully made, it's as exciting as any fictional thriller'' ALAN PARKER ''Dynamic, polemical and moving account… is a bold attempt to pump new- energy… fascinating a documentary in a thriller mode… compelling.'' Wally Hammond - TIME OUT ''This chilling film… won this year‘s Oscar for best documentary, and rightly so. A true-life, ticking clock thriller which is as compulsive as it is harrowing.. a genuine big-screen event.'' Nick Curtis – EVENING STANDARD ''Grips as tightly as any fictional thriller. Brilliant!'' 9/10 Alan Frank, DAILY STAR **** ''You’d be absolutely crazy to miss one of the best documentaries in years.'' NEWS OF THE WORLD ''A gripping, dismaying narrative… This is a sizzling documentary'' Peter Preston - OBSERVER ''It’s a first rate piece of reportage… so the story has a gripping race against time thriller element… its terrific'' SUNDAY TIMES ''Is a superb Oscar-winning documentary…'' Ann Billson - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH ''It will frankly leave you reeling'' Andrew Male - SELECT **** ''Watching this isn’t a dull, patriotic duty, it’s an eye-opening journey back to horrific events…chilling stuff, and well deserving of its Simon Lewis – UNCUT ''Utterly gripping'' HEAT ''Vivid and compelling stuff, a highly dramatic story told with great cinematic flair and force'' ID ''But what makes this a jaw-slackening expose of institutionalised incompetence so compelling… a meticulously researched and revelation-packed insight into the Games of Shame'' David Parkinson – EMPIRE
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