Captive

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

Documentary

Crime

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

Documentary

Crime

Total 1 seasons, 8 episodes

Aired 8 years ago

8 Episodes

Episode 1Prison Riot, U.S.A.74 min
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.
Episode 2Cola Kidnap, Brazil65 min
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.
Episode 3Taken at Sea, Somalia62 min
Sailing the Indian Ocean on their yacht, British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler are kidnapped by Somali pirates and held for an exorbitant ransom.
Episode 4American Missionaries, Philippines61 min
The long captivity of American missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham by Philippine terror group Abu Sayyaf takes on new urgency after 9/11.
Episode 5British Aid Workers, Chechnya60 min
A pair of British aid workers establishing a children's rehab center in war-torn Chechnya are taken prisoner and held for a year.