Captive
TV-MA
6.8
2016
Crime
, Documentary
Documentary series reconstructing history's most complex, high-stakes hostage negotiations as kidnapping victims recount their terrifying ordeals.
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Episode 8 : The Peacemakers, Iraq
December. 09,2016
In the violent aftermath of the Iraq War, four human rights activists from Christian Peacemaker Teams are taken hostage by insurgents in Baghdad.
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Episode 7 : Al Qaeda Hostages, Yemen
December. 09,2016
Pierre and Yolande Korkie relocate from South Africa to Yemen to perform charitable work, but tragedy follows when they are kidnapped by Al Qaeda.
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Episode 6 : Bethlehem Siege, Palestine
December. 09,2016
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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Episode 5 : British Aid Workers, Chechnya
December. 09,2016
A pair of British aid workers establishing a children's rehab center in war-torn Chechnya are taken prisoner and held for a year.
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Episode 4 : American Missionaries, Philippines
December. 09,2016
The long captivity of American missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham by Philippine terror group Abu Sayyaf takes on new urgency after 9/11.
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Episode 3 : Taken at Sea, Somalia
December. 09,2016
Sailing the Indian Ocean on their yacht, British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler are kidnapped by Somali pirates and held for an exorbitant ransom.
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Episode 2 : Cola Kidnap, Brazil
December. 09,2016
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.
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Episode 1 : Prison Riot, U.S.A.
December. 09,2016
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.
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