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Oct. 7 Screen Stories Peak on Anniversary With HBO Max Debut and TIFF Winner in Theaters

New releases confront denial using firsthand testimony, with disputed attacker footage fueling ethical and legal fights.

Scene from "One Day in October". Courtesy HBO-Max
Yaël Abecassis in One Day in October.
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Rotem Sela as Batsheva Yahalomi in Red Alert, episode 4, streaming on Paramount+, 2025. (Green Productions, Bender Brown Productions, Keshet 12, the IEF, & Paramount+)

Overview

  • HBO Max released the seven-episode anthology One Day in October in the U.S. on Oct. 7 with a full-season drop.
  • Barry Avrich’s The Road Between Us expanded to North American theaters after TIFF reversed a brief withdrawal and the film won the festival’s People’s Choice Documentary Award.
  • Paramount+, Prime Video, Apple TV, PBS and YouTube now host a broad slate of Oct. 7 documentaries and series, widening international access.
  • Many projects incorporate raw evidence such as Hamas body‑cam recordings, CCTV and survivors’ phone videos, prompting clearance and consent disputes and drawing protests at some screenings.
  • Filmmakers and subjects frame the work as bearing witness as unresolved hostages and continuing displacement of border communities shape both the stories and audience response.