Hostages

444 days. Decades in the making.

Release date : 2022-09-28

Production country :

United States of America

Production company :

Show of Force,

HBO Documentary Films

Network :

HBO

Status : Ended

Total Season : 1

Total episode : 4

Popularity : 1.6931

5.8 Total Vote : 6

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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.