Product: One Day in September [VHS] (2006)
Rating: 2.0
The good guys (Israel) and the bad guys (Palestinians)
I think that would have been a more fitting title. Motivations and facts about why the Palestinian group did what they did, why the "ruthlessly efficient Germans" were so imcompetent in handling the situation are put aside in place of MTV style cinematography, period rock songs a la Led Zepellin et al, and more sentimental moments from the Israeli point of view than any Dick Edburg OLympic Moment could muster. Only at the end do the so-called terrorists VERY briefly explain why they did what they did, but this important scene is downgraded with a cheesy fade out and slow motion view of the surviving person in order to perceive him as pure evil; this is similar to the sensationalist camera tricks used on the "bad guys" on shows like COPS. This is a very one-sided documentary made for the ignorant hip-hop generation simplistically displaying the Palestinians as ruthless terroroists without a cause and the Israelis as nothing more than victims. No wonder it won an Academy Award!