Captive
Using a combination of interviews, hazy reconstructions and archive footage, Captive’s eight hour-long episodes each tell the story of a different hostage situation, from a prison riot in Ohio to a British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates in the middle of the Indian Ocean. How it differs from most true crime gawp-a-thons is by speaking to people on both sides of each stand-off, although the hostage-takers themselves aren’t exactly taken to task.
