Plot Synopsis

Using re-creations and fist-person interviews with kidnapping victims who recount their terrifying ordeals, CAPTIVE reconstructs history's most complex, high-stakes hostage negotiations, revealing how hostage-taking, and the efforts to resolve it, have evolved to address an escalating international trend. The episodes look at a wide range of situations from the viewpoint of everyone involved: the victims and their families back home, the experienced negotiators, business leaders, government officials and the kidnappers themselves. Netflix released the first season of CAPTIVE on Friday, December 9, 2016 at 3:01am ET/12:01am PT.