Captive
This documentary series reconstructs history's most complex, high-stakes hostage negotiations as kidnapping victims recount their terrifying ordeals.
- 2016-2016
- 1 season
- Netflix
- Documentary
This documentary series reconstructs history's most complex, high-stakes hostage negotiations as kidnapping victims recount their terrifying ordeals.
Season 1 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2016
Episode 1
Prison Riot, U.S.A.
Fri, Dec 9, 2016 73 mins
On Easter Sunday 1993, inmates at a maximum security prison in Lucasville, Ohio, riot and take eight guards hostage, leading to a 10-day standoff.
Episode 2
Cola Kidnap, Brazil
Fri, Dec 9, 2016 65 mins
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 3
Taken at Sea, Somalia
Fri, Dec 9, 2016 61 mins
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 4
American Missionaries, Philippines
61 mins
The long captivity of American missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham by Philippine terror group Abu Sayyaf takes on new urgency after 9/11.
Episode 5
British Aid Workers, Chechnya
Fri, Dec 9, 2016 59 mins
A pair of British aid workers establishing a children's rehab center in war-torn Chechnya are taken prisoner and held for a year.
Episode 6
Bethleham Siege, Palestine
Fri, Dec 9, 2016 59 mins
When Israeli forces invade Bethlehem in 2002, dozens of Palestinians take refuge in the Church of the Nativity, sparking a month long standoff.
Episode 7
Al Qaeda Hostages, Yemen
Fri, Dec 9, 2016 62 mins
Pierre and Yolande Korkie relocate from South Africa to Yemen to perform charitable work, but tragedy follows when they are kidnapped by Al Qaeda.
Episode 8
The Peacemakers, Iraq
Fri, Dec 9, 2016 62 mins
In the violent aftermath of the Iraq War, four human rights activists from Christian Peacemakers Teams are taken hostage by insurgents in Baghdad.
