
Hostages
A sober, gripping historical chronicle that immerses you in a tense international standoff through firsthand accounts and archival footage.
- Created by
- Joshua Bennett, Sam Pollard
- Genres
- Documentary
- Tagline
- 444 days. Decades in the making.
- Overview
- On November 4, 1979, Iranian student activists stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking over 60 Americans hostage. What was planned as a 48-hour sit-in to protest American imperialism, ballooned into an international crisis and 24/7 media event that would last 444 days. With never-before-seen archival footage and revelatory new interviews with the American hostages and Iranian hostage-takers alike, the series is a gripping chronicle of one of the most dramatic international deadlocks in American history, a deep dive into the geo-political history that led to the crisis, and an exploration of the political fallout that reverberates today.
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- Created by
- Joshua Bennett, Sam Pollard
- Genres
- Documentary












