Live from Munich

Riveting drama about how terror attack at the 1972 Olympics made television history.

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Most great journalism films, it must be said, are about print media. Television newsrooms, when depicted on the big screen, are where telegenic people fall in love, realise their potential or sue their boss for sexual harassment.

Yes, there was the prescient Network, the insightful but cute Broadcast News - and its 21st-century television offspring The Newsroom - plus the tobacco industry whistleblower The Insider. Otherwise, it seems celluloid goes better with inkSpotlight, All the President's Men, She Said, um, The French Dispatch.

September 5 provides television news with a journalism procedural that feels up there with the best true-story newsprint dramas. It's a taut 85 minutes about the attack by the Palestinian Black September Organisation on the Israeli team at the Munich Olympics in 1972. It's told from the perspective of the sports broadcasters of American network ABC, whose cramped production facility was near enough to the athletes' village - where the Israeli team members were taken hostage - they could wheel a studio camera outside to film it live.