Goofs

After being shot, the first target falls face-first onto his grocery bag. In the next scene, he is lying face up.

When the Israeli hostages get into the helicopter, they are all blindfolded. When they get out of the helicopter, none are blindfolded and one is even wearing glasses.

When Avner and his wife are making love in New York, he is drenched in sweat and his hair is soaking wet. His wife wipes his face and his wet hair is visible. In the next shot, his hair is dry.

At the end of the film, when Avner's wife Daphna touches his face, her nails are polished. After they have sex, her nails are not polished.

When dialing the phone number of the bomb-trapped phone for the second time, Carl begins with a different digit than he did the first time he called.

Israeli weightlifter Yossef Romano is portrayed as a fit man who attempts a rescue, which eventually results in his death. At the time of the kidnapping, Romano was injured and walking with crutches.

In the film, the German snipers at the airport were using rifles with telescopic sights. In reality, the Germans were criticized for their lack of preparation, including the fact that none of the snipers had telescopic or infrared sights.

The film shows General Zvi Zamir being informed of the death of the hostages by phone in an office with an Israeli flag. In reality, he was present at the airfield in Munich during the shootout itself, and would have learned the fate of the hostage there, not by phone.

When Carl goes into the apartment building lobby to "sweep" the scene of the first assassination, he picks up a spent shell casing that is clearly a .22 Caliber shell. The assassins were both armed with Beretta M1951 model pistols, which fire 9mm.

The only El Al flight that was high jacked in 1968 was flight 426 not 76, and it wasn't bombed.

Late in the film, Avner makes a telephone call from a booth on a street apparently in Brooklyn. He gives the phone's area code as 212. This was correct at the time the movie was set. Brooklyn changed to the 718 area code in 1984.

While having dinner after they killed the female assassin, the team says they killed six of their targets; they had killed seven.

In fact, the team says they had killed six of their targets and one replacement. Which is what they had killed: six of the list of eleven and the replacement of one of them (the KGB contact).

At the beginning of the movie, the Munich Olympic kidnappings are on TV. Actors are watching the footage on screen as if it was happening live, but the date of the events is displayed on the ABC news coverage. The news footage is clearly archive footage.

In discussing a large money payment to locate the first target, Wael Zwaiter, Avner jokingly refers to James Madison as the American he is supposedly working for while holding up a Franklin $100 bill.

Though they took the time to digitally add the World Trade Center to the final shot, they didn't edit out the Citigroup Center, Trump World Tower, and the Bloomberg building, which were built after the time of the movie.

The reel-to-reel tape recorder used in the debriefing is a Revox B77, which came on the market in 1978.

When the first Palestinian target turns the corner at his house, right before his assassination, a modern parking meter is visible with a sign of a cellular phone.

When Avner checks his TV, he is holding a MagLite in his mouth. The first MagLite was introduced in 1979, and the model he's holding was introduced in 1984.

When Avner and Ephraim are walking along the beach in the middle of the film, a jet-ski appears in the water. Jet-skis were invented in 1976.

When Avner is waiting for the Palestinian's daughter and wife to come out of their building, before letting off the telephone bomb, the little girl says the same line twice. Off-screen, she says hello to her driver before she actually meets him. She comes out, repeats the same line, and says hello to the driver when she meets him.

When leaving Papa's farm, the camera and two operators are reflected on the side of the car.

When Avner and Ephraim are walking along the beach in Tel Aviv, the sea is to the left and the sun is casting shadows towards the camera, revealing that they are walking north. The scene must have been shot on the east coast of Malta, not in Tel Aviv, on Israel's west coast.

When Avner meets Andreas and his friend Tony in a Rome café, there is a statue of Queen Victoria in the middle of the square, betraying the location as Malta.

When Avner is on the airplane to Geneva, the flight number starts with SA, for South African Airways, which has never flown to Geneva.

The Olympic stadium that is shown in the beginning of the film does not even remotely resemble the Olympiastadion in Munich, which has a very distinctive architecture.

Golda Meir wishes "mazel tov" to Avner's unborn daughter. Saying "mazel tov" on an unborn baby is bad luck.