Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "munich-olympics"

1. Matilda (1996)

PG | 102 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

A girl gifted with a keen intellect and psychic powers uses both to get even with her callous family and free her kindly schoolteacher from the tyrannical grip of a sadistic headmistress.

Director: Danny DeVito | Stars: Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Mara Wilson, Embeth Davidtz

Votes: 174,905 | Gross: $33.08M

2. Munich (2005)

R | 164 min | Action, Drama, History

After the Black September capture and massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics, five men are chosen to eliminate the people responsible for that fateful day.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Marie-Josée Croze, Ciarán Hinds

Votes: 238,451 | Gross: $47.40M

3. The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)

R | 150 min | Action, Biography, Crime

A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings, and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s.

Director: Uli Edel | Stars: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Bruno Ganz

Votes: 40,154 | Gross: $0.48M

4. 21 Hours at Munich (1976 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, History, Sport

A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered eleven Israeli athletes.

Director: William A. Graham | Stars: William Holden, Shirley Knight, Franco Nero, Anthony Quayle

Votes: 1,225

5. One Day in September (1999)

R | 94 min | Documentary, History, Sport

The Palestinian terrorist group Black September holds Israeli athletes hostage at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich.

Director: Kevin Macdonald | Stars: Michael Douglas, Ankie Spitzer, Jamal Al Gashey, Gerald Seymour

Votes: 6,246 | Gross: $0.16M

6. Sword of Gideon (1986 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 173 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Chronicles a Mossad team hand picked to hunt down the terrorists involved in the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes.

Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Steven Bauer, Michael York, Robert Joy, Laurent Malet

Votes: 1,345

7. The Swinging Co-eds (1972)

R | 87 min | Comedy

Young women come to Munich for fun and work during the '72 Olympics and invariably wind up naked.

Director: Walter Boos | Stars: Karin Götz, Ulrike Butz, Dorit Henke, Britt Lindberg

Votes: 162

8. Turumba (1981)

95 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama

Kadu, a boy from Pakil, Laguna, experiences the dissolution of tradition as it gives way to capitalism in the form of Madame, a foreigner who initially came to their village as a customer during the Festival of Turumba.

Director: Kidlat Tahimik | Stars: Homer Abiad, Iñigo Vito, Maria Pehipol, Patricio Abari

Votes: 107

9. München 72 - Das Attentat (2012 TV Movie)

90 min | Crime, Drama, History

The 1972 Olympics should have been a sporting highlight. But then the unthinkable happens. In the early morning of September 5th Palestinian terrorists stormed the Olympic village and invade the quarters of the Israeli delegation.

Director: Dror Zahavi | Stars: Bernadette Heerwagen, Heino Ferch, Felix Klare, Pasquale Aleardi

Votes: 250

10. Munich '72 and Beyond (2016)

44 min | Documentary, Short

Chronicling the 4-decade struggle to memorialize the victims of the 1972 "Munich Massacre"

Director: Stephen Crisman | Stars: Peter Bonventre, Igal Carmi, Neil Leifer, Barry Maister

Votes: 21

11. Sport strany Sovetov (1979)

57 min | Documentary, Sport

Documentary film 'Sport of the country of Soviets' is about the history of the development of physical education in the Soviet Union. The sport began to develop rapidly. Athletes have ... See full summary »

Director: Alexandra Rybakova | Stars: Muhammad Ali, Nikolay Andrianov, Eduard Azaryan, Vilhelmina Bardauskiene

12. 1972 Munich Games: Bud Greenspan Remembers (2002 TV Movie)

90 min | Documentary

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Director: Bud Greenspan | Stars: Bud Greenspan, Will Lyman

Votes: 18

13. Der Bastian (1973– )
Episode: Olympiade mit Logierbesuch (1973)

24 min | Drama

The 1972 Olympic Games are taking place in Munich, and hotel rooms are scarce. Grandmother has a house guest come for Olympics.

Director: Rudolf Jugert | Stars: Horst Janson, Lina Carstens, Karin Anselm, Monika Schwarz

Votes: 12

14. Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode: Israeli Intelligence

TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, History, War

In a constant war of survival, the state of Israel commissioned super sleuths for military intelligence, kidnappings, assassinations and hostage rescues. From retributions against ex-Nazis ... See full summary »

Stars: Charlton Heston, Thomas B. Allen, Gideon Shimron, Ze'ev Keren

15. Seconds from Disaster (2004–2018)
Episode: Munich Olympic Massacre (2006)

TV-PG | Documentary

An examination of the deadly terrorist hostage taking and subsequent massacre of Israeli athletes during the 1972 Munich Olympics.

Director: Jim Nally | Stars: Benjamin Berger, David Mark Berger, Rami Hilmi, Heinz Hohensinn

Votes: 48

16. Dangerous Missions (1999–2002)
Episode: Counter Terrorist Teams (2001)

Documentary, War

Reviews the history and evolution of terrorism and counter terrorism. Primary focus is on the more dramatic successes and failures since the 1972 murders of Israli Olympians in Munich by Palestinean terrorists.

Director: Annie Azzariti | Star: Beau Billingslea

17. The 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs (1998– )
Episode: Programme 3 (1998)

48 min | Documentary, History, War

1967-1982. The story of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation.

Director: David Ash | Stars: Abu Ali Shaheen, Mashour Haditha Al-Jazy, King Hussein, Israel Tal

Votes: 7