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Stories Set in Munich
Munich is the capital of Bavaria, Germany's wealthy Catholic south. Then came the 1972 Olympics, when gunmen took Israeli athletes hostage and the cameras never looked away; the city has lived in that shadow on screen ever since. Munich reconstructs the crisis; Munich: The Edge of War negotiates the one before it. Open Munich on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 25 books, 39 movies, 1 TV show and 1 game set in Munich.
Munich
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…
Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa
Munich Germany 1923. Two years have passed since Edward Elric was dragged from his own world to ours leaving behind his country his friends and his younger brother Alphonse. Stripped of his alchemical powers he has been…
My Blind Date with Life
An ambitious young man struggles to achieve his dream of becoming an employee in a Munich luxury hotel despite being strongly visually impaired.
Munich: The Edge of War
At the tense 1938 Munich Conference former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.
The Night Circus
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking…
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
In 1943 as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe a group of college students mount an underground resistance movement in Munich. Dedicated expressly to the downfall of the monolithic Third Reich war machine they…
Three Seconds
The story is set at the 1972 Munich Olympics where the U.S. team lost the basketball championship for the first time in 36 years. The final moments of the final game have become one of the most controversial events in…
Michael Jackson: HIStory Tour - Live in Munich
1. Computer Animation Intro 2. Scream 3. They Don't Care About Us 4. In The Closet 5. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 6. Stranger In Moscow 7. Smooth Criminal 8. You Are Not Alone 9. Jackson 5 Medley 10. I'll Be There 11.…
Veronika Voss
In Munich 1955 German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz who keeps her supplied with morphine. After meeting sports writer Robert Krohn Veronika begins to dream of a…
One Day in September
The full story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli revenge operation 'Wrath of God.' The 1972 Munich Olympics were interrupted by Palestinian terrorists taking Israeli athletes hostage. Besides footage…
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