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"Hostages" takes you into the heart of the most striking hostage situations in contemporary history.From Munich ’72 to Tehran ’79, via the Stockholm syndrome, each episode revisits those suspended moments when the entire world held its breath.Who are the captors? What do the hostages endure? What is really happening behind the scenes? Investigation, tension, immersion. True stories, real voices, hard facts — where drama meets history and geopolitics.Through a tense and thoroughly researched narrative, "Hostages" deciphers the psychological mechanisms, the political stakes, the secret ...

Based on a true story, American Hostage stars Jon Hamm as Fred Heckman, a beloved local radio reporter who is thrust into the middle of a life-or-death crisis when hostage-taker, Tony Kiritsis, demands to be interviewed on his popular radio news program.American Hostage is an 8-episode scripted psychological thriller from Criminal Content starring Emmy Award-winner Jon Hamm and directed by Academy Award® winner Shawn Christensen.

On September 3, 1901, a Protestant missionary named Ellen Stone set out on horseback across the mountainous hinterlands of Balkan Macedonia and was ambushed by a band of armed revolutionaries. In The Miss Stone Affair, Teresa Carpenter re-creates an event that captured the attention of the world and posed a dilemma for incoming president Theodore Roosevelt. Should he send in the Navy or not? And, if so, send it where? Drawing upon a wealth of contemporary correspondence and documents, Carpenter constructs a narrative that is suspenseful, harrowing, and at times even comical. It is a story for our time.