hostages

Rob is taken hostage when he gets caught in the middle of a bank robbery.

At the age of eighteen, Amanda Lindhout moved from her hardscrabble Alberta, Canada hometown to the big city--Calgary--and worked as a cocktail waitress, saving her tips so she could travel the globe. In war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq she carved out a fledgling career as a TV reporter. And then, in August 2008, she traveled to Mogadishu, Somalia--"the most dangerous place on earth"--to report on the fighting there. On her fourth day in the country, she and her male photojournalist companion were abducted. She is kept in chains, nearly starved, and subjected to unthinkable abuse. She survives by imagining herself in a "house in the sky," looking down at the woman shackled below, and finding strength and hope in the power of her own mind. Upon her release, to counter the violence she endured, she founded an organization to help the Somali people rebuild their country through education.

James Loney spent four months as a prisoner in Baghdad after he and three other men were kidnapped at gunpoint. Members of a peace mission with Christian Peacemaker Teams, their kidnapping was controversial and one of the most publicized. One of their group, an American, was murdered. The others were rescued by British and U.S. special forces.

On March 17,2009, Laura Ling and her colleague, Euna Lee, were working on a documentary about North Korean defectors. While filming on the Chinese-North Korean border, they were apprehended by North Korean soldiers. They were charged with trespassing and hostile acts, imprisoned, put on trial, and sentenced to twelve years of hard labor in a North Korean prison camp. When all this news reached Laura's sister, journalist Lisa Ling, she immediately began a campaign to get her sister, along with Euna Lee, released. Eventually, with the help of high-ranking U.S. officials and others, she was successful.

Sixteen-year-old D'Arcy, always on the lookout for drama, finds herself in over her head when she attempts to help her classmate Zania whose mother is being held hostage by a drug-dealing boyfriend.

Former hostage Terry Anderson's memoir of how he survived seven years of captivity in Lebanon.

A group of international guests, taken hostage by terrorists while attending a birthday party at the home of the vice president of a small South American country, form bonds with their captors and enter into an almost idyllic lifestyle, united by the music of Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano.

Sixteen-year-old D'Arcy, always on the lookout for drama, finds herself in over her head when she attempts to help her classmate Zania whose mother is being held hostage by a drug-dealing boyfriend.

Former hostage Terry Anderson's memoir of how he survived seven years of captivity in Lebanon.

When an unknown man armed with a gun walks into an elementary school classroom, holding the children hostage, Officer Meg Barrett watches and waits for his demands, while Evelyn Oliver, trapped in her classroom, wonders how to save her students.