hostages

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.

Agatha Clay, a student at the Transylvania Polygnostic University, seems destined for failure since she is unable to build anything that actually works, until she is taken hostage aboard a giant airship where she must use her vast knowledge and limited skills to escape.

After his girlfriend disappears with over two hundred million pounds of the British government's money, Jaime Segura, realizing the officials think he knows where she is and want him dead, decides to take six people hostage inside a day care with the hope of uncovering the truth.

With the approach of the tenth anniversary of the time she was held hostage in a fast food restaurant, nineteen-year-old Freda Opperman struggles to make sense of her memories of the event and how they have shaped her life.

Examines the Iran hostage crisis during which fifty-two Americans were held hostage in the Tehran embassy for over 440 days, and offers insights into the event from the perspective of the hostages, soldiers sent to set them free, the radical captors, and diplomats trying to end the crisis.

Hostage survivor Ashley Smith offers a detailed account of her captivity and interactions with alleged killer Brian Nichols and reflects on how the experience impacted her life.

The 2000s are most associated with the 9/11 attack on American soil and the War on Terrorism that followed. But many other parts of the world experienced terrorist attacks and wars during the decade, as well as dramatic hostage situations, coups, acts of genocide, and other violent conflicts.

In 1975, as he is held hostage by an Arab and an Italian who plan to trade him for the freedom of three Palestinian prisoners, storyteller, writer, and husband Shaltiel Feigenberg relates stories about his life, including those about his Communist brother and childhood hiding from Nazis in a cellar.