Hostages (series)
- User score: 5.6
- Production country: United States of America
- Production companies: Show of Force, HBO Documentary Films
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 9/28/2022
- Release date of last episode: 9/29/2022
- Series status: Ended
- Seasons count: 1 ( List of episodes )
- Episodes count: 4
Series description
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.
