21 Hours at Munich is a 1976 American historical drama television film directed by William A. Graham and starring William Holden, Shirley Knight and Franco Nero. It is based on the 1975 non-fiction book The Blood of Israel by Serge Groussard, and it deals with real events concerning the Munich massacre during the 1972 Summer Olympics. It was broadcast by ABC November 7, 1976. Despite its television origin, the film was released theatrically in several foreign countries. It was nominated for two Primetime Emmys.
21 Hours at Munich
William Franklin Holden was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s. Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film Stalag 17 (1953) and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for the television miniseries The Blue Knight (1973).
Holden in a publicity photo, 1950
With Lee J. Cobb (right) in Holden's first starring role in a film, Golden Boy (1939)
With George Raft (right) in Invisible Stripes (1939)
With Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard (1950)