Drama · History · Thriller
American
2005 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 164 min
After the attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, a small covert team is assembled to hunt down those held responsible. Spielberg treats the material as a tense, morally unsettled thriller rather than a straightforward story of justice.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining post-9/11 Hollywood thriller, it revived the morally ambiguous political cinema of the 1970s at a time when American cinema was reluctant to complicate stories of counter-terrorism.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a thriller about procedure and conscience, where every carefully planned operation also tests the people carrying it out.
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