Hostage Movies at the Box Office. Genres. 19. 80- Present. Movies about the interaction between hostage and captor. Rank. Title (click to view)Studio. Lifetime Gross / Theaters. Hostage is a 2005 American action thriller drama film produced by and starring Bruce Willis and directed by Florent Emilio Siri. The film was based on a novel by Robert Crais, and was adapted for the screen by Doug Richardson. Directed by Florent-Emilio Siri. With Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollak, Serena Scott Thomas, Jimmy Bennett. A failed police negotiator turned small-town cop, must save the lives of a family held hostage, which draws him into a much. Inside an FBI Hostage Crisis A Stolen Boy, an Angry Loner, an Underground Bunker. Find out more about the history of Iran Hostage Crisis, including videos, interesting articles, pictures, historical features and more. Get all the facts on HISTORY.com. The AAdvanced Hostage Rescue Tactics (HRT) training course will expose the student to hostage rescue theories, tactics and advanced close quarter battle techniques. Opening / Theaters. Date. 1Air Force One. Sony$1. 72,9. 56,4. Argo. WB$1. 36,0. Speed. Fox$1. 21,2. Captain Phillips. Sony$1. 07,1. 00,8. Collateral. DW$1. Olympus Has Fallen. FD$9. 8,9. 25,6. 40. Non- Stop. Uni. 9. Die Hard. Fox$8. 3,0. White House Down. Sony$7. 3,1. 03,7. John Q. NL$7. 1,7. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3. Sony$6. 5,4. 52,3. Misery. Col. 6. 1,2. Prisoners. WB$6. 1,0. The River Wild. Uni. Phone Booth. Fox$4. The Negotiator. WB$4. Nothing to Lose. BV$4. Money Monster. Tri. S$4. 1,0. 12,0. 75. Hostage. Mira. 3. Cadillac Man. Orion$2. From Dusk Till Dawn. Mira. 2. 5,8. 36,6. Saving Silverman. Sony$1. 9,4. 02,0. Toy Soldiers. Tri. S$1. 5,0. 73,9. 42. Excess Baggage. Sony$1. Lockout. FD$1. 4,3. The Ref. BV$1. 1,4. Mad City. WB$1. 0,5. Getaway (2. 01. 3)WB$1. Celtic Pride. BV$9,2. Runaway Train. Can. House Arrest. MGM$7,0. The Clearing. Fox. S$5,7. 63,8. 75. 44. Airheads. Fox$5,7. Birthday Girl. Mira. Held Up. Trim. 4,7. A Life Less Ordinary. Fox$4,3. 66,7. 22. Desperate Hours (1. MGM$2,7. 42,9. 12. Faithful. NL$2,1. Suicide Kings. Art. Swimming with Sharks. Trim. 3. 82,9. 28. Albino Alligator. Mira. 3. 39,3. 79. Secuestro Express. Mira. 3. 07,2. 08. Malevolence. PZR$1. S. F. W. Gram. 6. Trespass (2. 01. 1)MNE$2. Cold Comes the Night. Gold. 1. 6,9. 71. The 2. 4th Day. Scre. ATMIFC$3,0. 10. 2$2,0. The Dark Hours. N/A$4. TOTAL (All Movies): $1,7. AVERAGE (All Movies): $3. TOTAL(Wide Releases Only): $1,7. AVERAGE(Wide Releases Only): $4. If there are any movies that you think should be on this list, e- mail us at mail@boxofficemojo. The Iranian Hostage Crisis . WGBH American Experience. November 1. 97. 9 - January 1. On November 4, 1. Islamic revolutionaries overran the U. S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 6. Americans hostage. Was Carter to blame for allowing it to happen? It's hard to say, since the hostage crisis was merely the latest event in the long and complex relationship between the United States and Iran. Ever since oil was discovered there in 1. Iran had attracted great interest from the West. The British played a dominant role there until World War II, when the Soviet Union joined them in fighting to keep the Germans out. Until 1. 95. 3, the United States mostly stayed on the sidelines, advocating for an independent Iran under the leadership of the young king, Reza Shah Pahlavi. But that year, fearing that charismatic prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh might be moving Iran closer to Moscow, the CIA directed an operation to oust him and consolidate power under the Shah. With a steady flow of oil from the ground and military equipment from the U. S., the Shah led Iran into a period of unprecedented prosperity. But growing resentment against an uneven distribution of wealth and the westernizing influence of the United States led to a confrontation with Islamic clergy in 1. The Shah effectively put down the uprising, sending its leader, an elderly cleric named Ruhollah Khomeini, into exile in Iraq. Though no one knew it at the time, Iran's Islamic revolution had begun. The Iranian Revolution. Fast forward to New Years Eve, 1. President Carter toasted the Shah at a state dinner in Tehran, calling him . What the president also knew, but chose to ignore, was that the Shah was in serious trouble. As opposition to his government mounted, he had allowed his secret police, SAVAK, to crack down on dissenters, fueling still more resentment. Within weeks of Carter's visit, a series of protests broke out in the religious city of Qom, denouncing the Shah's regime as . Two weeks later, thousands of Muslims cheered Khomeini's return to Iran after fourteen years in exile. Did the Carter administration ? Gaddis Smith might have put it best: . In the end he did neither, and suffered the consequences. The Crisis. Even after it became known that the Shah was suffering from cancer, President Carter was reluctant to allow him entry to the United States, for fear of reprisal against Americans still in Iran. But in October, when the severity of the Shah's illness became known, Carter relented on humanitarian grounds. No one had an answer to that. Turns out, we never did. In fact, a similar mob had briefly done the same thing nine months earlier, holding the American ambassador hostage for a few hours before members of Khomeini's retinue ordered him released. But this time, Khomeini saw a chance to consolidate his power around a potent symbol, and issued a statement in support of the action against the American . On November 1. 1, he embargoed Iranian oil. On the 1. 7th, Khomeini announced that female, African American, and non- U. S. While Secretary of State Cyrus Vance led the official diplomatic effort, Hamilton Jordan spent thousands of hours working secret channels. For the first few months, the American public rallied around Carter, who had clearly made freeing the hostages his number one priority. What am I going to do then?'. On April 1. 1, 1. Though the odds were against its success, the president was devastated when he had to abort the mission due to three malfunctioning helicopters. When another helicopter crashed into a C- 1. The next morning, gleeful Iranians broadcast footage of the smoking remains of the rescue attempt, a stark symbol of American impotence. The Hostages' Release. Relatively little happened during the summer, as Iranian internal politics took its course. In early July, the Iranians released hostage Richard Queen, who had developed multiple sclerosis. In the States, constant media coverage - - yellow ribbons, footage of chanting Iranian mobs, even a whole new television news program, ABC's Nightline - - provided a dispiriting backdrop to the presidential election season. As Carter advisor and biographer Peter Bourne put it, . There was little more advantage to be gained from further anti- American, anti- Shah propaganda, and the ongoing sanctions were making it harder to straighten out an already chaotic economy. Despite rumors that Carter might pull out an . Carter's all- night effort to bring the 5. ABC television crew in the Oval Office, fell short; the Iranians released them minutes after Reagan was inaugurated. On January 2. 1, 1. President Carter went to Germany to meet the freed hostages on behalf of the new president. It was a difficult moment, fraught with emotion. Hamilton Jordan recalled that Carter.
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