Taken Hostage: Part Two
- Episode aired Nov 15, 2022
- 1h 53m
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Revisit the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, when 52 Americans were held hostage in Tehran, through stories of those whose ordeal riveted the world.Revisit the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, when 52 Americans were held hostage in Tehran, through stories of those whose ordeal riveted the world.Revisit the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, when 52 Americans were held hostage in Tehran, through stories of those whose ordeal riveted the world.
Ed Bradley
- Self - CBS News Correspondent
- (archive footage)
Tom Brokaw
- Self - Host, NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw
- (archive footage)
Zbigniew Brzezinski
- Self - National Security Advisor
- (archive footage)
Jimmy Carter
- Self - 39th President of the United States
- (archive footage)
Warren Christopher
- Self - United States Deputy Secretary of State
- (archive footage)
Walter Cronkite
- Self - Anchor, CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
- (archive footage)
Sam Donaldson
- Self - ABC News Correspondent
- (archive footage)
Massoumeh Ebtekar
- Self - Hostage-Taker
- (archive footage)
- (as Masoumeh 'Mary' Ebtekar)
Sadegh Ghotbzadeh
- Self - Aide to Ayatollah Khomeini
- (archive footage)
Saddam Hussein
- Self - Leader of Iraq
- (archive footage)
Maynard Jackson
- Self - Mayor of Atlanta
- (archive footage)
David C. Jones
- Self - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- (archive footage)
- (as General David Jones)
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Did you know
- TriviaGary Sick talks about returning to Washington after the failed rescue attempt. While he's talking, there's a snippet of film showing an early 60's model car driving down the street away from the Capital building. This part of film was taken directly from the movie "Thirteen Days" when Kenny O'Donnell and Robert Kennedy were driving to their meeting at the Russian Embassy.
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Wonderful documentary that really helped me understand a part of history that I didn't experience in person.
This was a wonderful documentary and I learned so much about a part of history that I didn't know a lot about. Because of that I really appreciated all of the original footage that was used...and the first person interviews, including that of a surviving hostage.
For me this documentary really explained a lot of the anti-American sentiment that still exists in the Middle East. It was really shocking to see the failed rescue attempt and hear about that thru a first hand retelling of not just what the plan was...but where it went wrong.
In part one of this documentary it details out how western Iran had become, how the British petroleum company was taking Iran's resources with very little compensation to the Iranian people...and then part two really shows the reversal of many things like women being allowed to attend college, it gets in to the nitty gritty of the actual hostage crisis that went on for over a year with an Iranian woman going by the name "Mary" as the hostage taker's spokes person...who lied about who she was and where she got her education. Long, grueling and very public, I cannot imagine how the spouses and family members of the hostages felt during this time.
It was interesting to see how the British petroleum company was really taking advantage of the natural resources of Iran and it is unfortunate that the American government didn't listen to the Iranian leader at the time. It seems like a much simpler and more reasonable solution could have been brokered...one that could potentially have prevented the entire hostage situation long before it ever came to pass.
This was wonderful and I highly recommend this two part documentary to both history buffs and fans of documentaries alike.
For me this documentary really explained a lot of the anti-American sentiment that still exists in the Middle East. It was really shocking to see the failed rescue attempt and hear about that thru a first hand retelling of not just what the plan was...but where it went wrong.
In part one of this documentary it details out how western Iran had become, how the British petroleum company was taking Iran's resources with very little compensation to the Iranian people...and then part two really shows the reversal of many things like women being allowed to attend college, it gets in to the nitty gritty of the actual hostage crisis that went on for over a year with an Iranian woman going by the name "Mary" as the hostage taker's spokes person...who lied about who she was and where she got her education. Long, grueling and very public, I cannot imagine how the spouses and family members of the hostages felt during this time.
It was interesting to see how the British petroleum company was really taking advantage of the natural resources of Iran and it is unfortunate that the American government didn't listen to the Iranian leader at the time. It seems like a much simpler and more reasonable solution could have been brokered...one that could potentially have prevented the entire hostage situation long before it ever came to pass.
This was wonderful and I highly recommend this two part documentary to both history buffs and fans of documentaries alike.
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- Jul 14, 2023
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- Runtime1 hour 53 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 16:9 HD
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