1976: Summer of... Heat

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.

Runtime

2h 44m

Director

Steven Spielberg

Cast

Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American photojournalist Al Rockoff. When the U.S. Army pulls out amid escalating violence, Schanberg makes exit arrangements for Pran and his family. Pran, however, tells Schanberg he intends to ...

Runtime

2h 22m

Director

Roland Joffé

Cast

Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.

Runtime

2h 17m

Director

Manuel Huerga

Cast

Daniel Brühl, Tristán Ulloa, Leonardo Sbaraglia

The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.

Runtime

1h 47m

Director

Paul Greengrass

Cast

James Nesbitt, Allan Gildea, Gerard Crossan

When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Meinhof rebels against her dishonest marriage, walks away from her children and joins radical anarchist Andreas Baader. Together with Baader's girlfriend, Gudrun Ensslin, they form the violent Red Faction Army, and together perpetrate a sle...

Runtime

2h 29m

Director

Uli Edel

Cast

Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek