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Hostages (2022)

444 days. Decades in the making.

1 season4 episodes60 min per episode★ 7.9 · 779 votes

• Documentary
• History

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.

First aired

September 28, 2022

Last episode

September 29, 2022

Network

HBO

Country of origin

United States