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Captive

  • 2016
  • Ended
  • Documentary · Crime
  • 1 season
  • 6.3/10

This documentary series reconstructs history's most complex, high-stakes hostage negotiations as kidnapping victims recount their terrifying ordeals.

Latest: Season 1 · 2016

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  1. E1. Prison Riot, U.S.A.

    Dec 9, 2016 · 74m

    On Easter Sunday in 1993, inmates at a maximum security prison in Lucasville, Ohio, riot and take eight guards hostage, leading to a 10-day standoff.

  2. E2. Cola Kidnap, Brazil

    Dec 9, 2016 · 65m

    During a wave of kidnappings in early-1990s Brazil, a local Coca-Cola bottling executive is ambushed at gunpoint and held for a ransom of millions.

  3. E3. Taken at Sea, Somalia

    Dec 9, 2016 · 62m

    Sailing the Indian Ocean on their yacht, British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler are kidnapped by Somali pirates and held for an exorbitant ransom.

  4. E4. American Missionaries, Philippines

    Dec 9, 2016 · 61m

    The long captivity of American missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham by Philippine terror group Abu Sayyaf takes on new urgency after 9/11.

  5. E5. British Aid Workers, Chechnya

    Dec 9, 2016 · 60m

    A pair of British aid workers establishing a children's rehab center in war-torn Chechnya are taken prisoner and held for a year.

  6. E6. Bethlehem Siege, Palestine

    Dec 9, 2016 · 60m

    When Israeli forces invade Bethlehem in 2002, dozens of Palestinians take refuge in the Church of the Nativity, sparking a monthlong standoff.

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