
Hostages
TV-MA2022–2022·Ended·1 Seasons·4 Episodes·60 min·HBO·Wednesday,Thursday · 21:00
Studio: HBO Documentary Films, Show of Force
TMDb6.1
🇺🇸USA
USA
English · USA
Overview
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.
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Keywords
miniserieshistorical eventiran hostage crisisu.s. embassy
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Added: 5/14/2026Updated: 6/4/2026