. >> you know, i always loved jim mckay who is in this movie, you know? i guess. some of my favorite people. so deal with it. >> michael: but you are acting along with real doc footage because you mention jim mckay, you're showing him in this pivotal moment in september 5th 1992. >> actually, when they were talking with me about doing the movie and i saw the jim mckay footage from that day, that was really one of the things that pushed me over the edge. it's like hearing your favorite actor's going to do it like my favorite commentator's going to do it. >> michael: what drew you to the film besides that? we had a film about munich, we had a film about that event. >> yeah, great documentary, there is visions of eight, day of september. i think its the point of view in some ways it's almost summary submarine movie, guys in front of controls. i think the birth of the live camera returning from sports which it was meant for and turning it on the hostage crisis and the rolling 24-hour coverage that's live. and i don't think it's been a great thing. this is sor

i'm jim mckay speaking to you live from the olympics in munich, west germany. >> that's a new movie fromat day from sean mcmanus who until recently led cbs sports and before that cbs news as well who, it turns out, was there watching his famous father, abc sportscaster jim mckay relay the terrible news to the world. >> in september of 1972 i was a senior in high school and my mother, sister and i accompanied my dad to the 1972 munich olympics. the organizing committee was trying to help erase the memory of the 1936 olympics overseen by adolf hitler. none of the security guards carried guns and they all wore light blue suits making this the serene olympics. the beginning of the games were spectacular featuring such stars as olga corbett and mark spitz. then in the early morning hours of september 5th is it all went horrible, horribly wrong. >> i'm jim mckay speaking to you live. >> abc crew heard gunshots coming from the olympics. my dad summoned from the swimming pool where he was doing laps. he sat in the anchor chair and for the next 15 hours covered the first ever live terrorism attac

you have people like jim mckay who was absolutely extraordinary really rise up to the occasion and tryd 900 million people around the world watching a balcony waiting for something to happen, this kind of rolling coverage that we have now with the news which is like trying to cover an event with your face right up to the wall. there's no perspective at all and frankly i would say it's something that probably hasn't been that great for news. very little perspective in trying to cover something as that happens and they made mistakes and things. >> stephen: we have a clip, usb eight arledge talking to the team in the control room. >> peter: i am saying we should cover it and not news. >> stephen: jim. >> i know this isn't a responsibility everyone wants but does it make more sense to have a talking head from news take over from halfway across the world? our job is to tell the stories of these individuals whose lives are at stake 100 yards away. our job is really straightforward. we put the camera in the right place and we follow the story as it unfolds in real-time. news can tell us what