One Day in September
by Kevin Macdonald

List Price: $19.94
Our Price: $17.99
You Save: $1.95 (10%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $1.66 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases

DVD Cover Information

Movie Reviews of One Day in September

Movie Review: 3 stars out of 4
Summary: 4 Stars

Summary of One Day in September

This visceral, tense film uses riveting news footage to great effect, weaving in affecting interviews. Macdonald mourns the deaths of the innocent Olympic hostages and dutifully gives a voice to the Palestinian cause through interviews with Jamal al-Gashey, the only survivor of the eight terrorists, who briefly came out of hiding for the film. He earnestly but half-heartedly sketches a picture of the social and political situation that fueled the act, reserving his anger for the grossly unprepared German police force. The tragedy that erupted at the F?rstenfeldbruck air base becomes all the more upsetting in light of the incompetence and unforgivable mistakes: botched rescues, poor planning, bad intelligence, and lack of contingency plans. Even the irresponsibility of the media circus gets off lightly. It's a sobering, angering, often frustrating piece of non-fiction cinema, a thorough piece of historical research brought to life with an angry immediacy. Macdonald simply doesn't know what lessons to draw from it all. --Sean Axmaker

Documentary DVD Video

• Sports