Captive
Captive
TV ShowEnded

Captive

6.3 / 10
2016
1 season
8 episodes
DocumentaryCrime

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

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Seasons

  • Prison Riot, U.S.A.

    1.Prison Riot, U.S.A.

    7.0
    09-12-201674m

    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.

  • Cola Kidnap, Brazil

    2.Cola Kidnap, Brazil

    9.0
    09-12-201665m

    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.

  • Taken at Sea, Somalia

    3.Taken at Sea, Somalia

    09-12-201662m

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

  • American Missionaries, Philippines

    4.American Missionaries, Philippines

    09-12-201661m

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

  • British Aid Workers, Chechnya

    5.British Aid Workers, Chechnya

    09-12-201660m

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

  • Bethlehem Siege, Palestine

    6.Bethlehem Siege, Palestine

    09-12-201660m

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

  • Al Qaeda Hostages, Yemen

    7.Al Qaeda Hostages, Yemen

    09-12-201663m

    Pierre and Yolande Korkie relocate from South Africa to Yemen to perform charitable work, but tragedy follows when they are kidnapped by Al Qaeda.

  • The Peacemakers, Iraq

    8.The Peacemakers, Iraq

    09-12-201663m

    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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