'September 5' focuses on news, not Jews, in dramatizing 1972 Munich attack on Israeli Olympians

in Munich, and in that city, he said, "this tragedy is still very present."

One through-line in the film is that the Olympics, the first to take place in Germany since the Games Hitler hosted in 1936, were meant to "welcome to the world to a new Germany," in the words of a German official, at a time when World War II and the Holocaust were still in living memory for most people.

Mark Spitz, a Jewish American swimmer, won seven gold medals, and the producers are depicted discussing whether to ask Spitz about "winning gold in Hitler's backyard." Among the massive amount of archival footage in th...