hostages

Describes the dangerous work done by hostage negotiators, discussing the training and skills needed to become a hostage negotiator, looking at the teamwork required to do the job, and examining the rescue process.

Detective Michael Bennett is called in when the son of one of New York's richest families is kidnapped and held hostage, and when another student disappears, Bennett must rely on FBI agent Emily Parker before the mastermind can fulfill his plot to bring destruction to the city.

Examines ten of the most difficult and successful hostage rescues in the world including the raid on Entebbe, Uganda in 1976 by the Sayeret Mat'kal of Israel, the 1980 SAS operation by the British against the Iranian embassy in London, and other rescues by France, Germany, Russia, Peru, and the Dutch.

Television reporter Tiel McCoy, headed out Interstate 20 on vacation, changes her plans when she hears that the teenage daughter of a Fort Worth multimillionaire has been kidnapped, deciding instead to cover the story that brings her face-to-face with a pair of desperate young lovers.

Presents an overview of the events of the terrorist siege of the Japanese embassy in Peru in 1996.

Paul Blart is a mild-mannered, dutiful family man who works as a security guard in a New Jersey mall. He has applied to become a cop for years, but he always fails the physical exam because he is overweight and has hyperglycemia. One day a gang of organized criminals put the mall under siege and takes hostages. Blart becomes trapped inside and because he feels it is duty as a security guard, he refuses to leave. He becomes the police department's eyes on the inside and attempts to stop the criminals on his own.

Zed, a Lebanese-British teenager, recalls the agonizing ordeal during which he, as a timid eight-year-old hostage of an Arab terrorist group, learned about courage.

A sixteen-year-old with schizophrenia is caught up in the events surrounding an attempted robbery by two other teens who eventually hold him hostage.

Seventeen-year-old Amy, her father, and her stepmother becomes hostages when Somalian pirates seize their yacht, but although she builds a bond with one of her captors it becomes brutally clear that the price of life and its value are two very different things.

Describes how extremist groups and governments have resorted to hostage taking in recent years, and shows how both the Carter and Reagan administrations have dealt with such crises.