Hostages

Plot summary

“444 days. Decades in the making.”

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.

Seasons

Crew

• personAbbas Ahmadi MotlaghDirector
• Sam PollardDirector
• personMaro ChermayeffDirector
• personJeff DupreDirector
• personSaralena WeinfieldProducer
• Lisa HellerExecutive producer
• Sara RodriguezExecutive producer
• Nancy AbrahamExecutive producer

Production companies

• Show of Force
• HBO Documentary Films