About this season
This documentary series reconstructs history's most complex, high-stakes hostage negotiations as kidnapping victims recount their terrifying ordeals.
Episodes (8)
1. Prison Riot, U.S.A.
7.0Aired 9 December 2016 • 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.
2. Cola Kidnap, Brazil
9.0Aired 9 December 2016 • 65 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.
3. Taken at Sea, Somalia
Aired 9 December 2016 • 62 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.
4. American Missionaries, Philippines
Aired 9 December 2016 • 61 min
The long captivity of American missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham by Philippine terror group Abu Sayyaf takes on new urgency after 9/11.
5. British Aid Workers, Chechnya
Aired 9 December 2016 • 60 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.
6. Bethlehem Siege, Palestine
Aired 9 December 2016 • 60 min
When Israeli forces invade Bethlehem in 2002, dozens of Palestinians take refuge in the Church of the Nativity, sparking a monthlong standoff.
7. Al Qaeda Hostages, Yemen
Aired 9 December 2016 • 63 min
Pierre and Yolande Korkie relocate from South Africa to Yemen to perform charitable work, but tragedy follows when they are kidnapped by Al Qaeda.
8. The Peacemakers, Iraq
Aired 9 December 2016 • 63 min
In the violent aftermath of the Iraq War, four human rights activists from Christian Peacemaker Teams are taken hostage by insurgents in Baghdad.