hostages

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Step on a crack

2007
Detective Michael Bennett is about to take on the most sinister challenge of his career. The nation has fallen into mourning after the unexpected death of a beloved former first lady, and the most powerful people in the world gather in New York for her funeral. Then the inconceivable occurs. Billionaires, politicians, and superstars of every kind are suddenly trapped within one man's brilliant and ruthless scenario.

Trapped

2007
When her sixteen-year-old daughter Kelly disappears from her bedroom one night, Long Island single mom Jane Hartley discovers that she had been involved with a man she had met on MySpace.com and who is holding her hostage and hires an ex-FBI agent to bring her daughter home.

Tom and Ricky and the mystery at Bear Lake

1983
While spending the weekend camping at Bear Lake, Tom and Ricky find a girl being held for ransom.

Captain America

2003
The small town of Centerville is being held hostage by the terrorist Al-Tariq. Captain America's mission is to take out the terrorists, while protecting the lives of the innocent.

Zed

1990
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.

Girl Genius

2005
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.

Reconstruction

2008
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.

The song of an innocent bystander

2004
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.

Guests of the Ayatollah

the first battle in America's war with militant Islam
2006
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.

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