The face of modern age catastrophe through human evil obtains in the Tim Fehlbaum film, September 5 (2024). ABC Sports becomes a brief arm of ABC News as it covers the stupefying kidnapping of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches—an actual occurrence—at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. It is done by Palestinian terrorists known as Black September: a mini-October 7, 2023. Roone Arledge, the head man for Sports, provides something less than competence in the situation (as do the Germans). Not so Geoff Mason, and the Jewish Marvin Bader sometimes knows what is best. The acting of Peter Sarsgaard (Arledge), John Magaro (Mason) and Ben Chaplin (Bader) unerringly deepens the film, and the script sizzles. The movie seems eager to capture history.