Hostages

“444 days. Decades in the making.”

• 2022
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• Ended
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• TV-MA

• Documentary

★ 6.6 TMDB Rating · 9 votes

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

1

Episodes

4

Episode length

~1h

First aired

Sep 28, 2022

Networks

HBO

Original language

English

Origin

United States