Movies and TvShows featuring "iran-hostage-crisis" theme.

In 1979, militants storm the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking more than 50 hostages. Six Americans manage to escape and hide in the Canadian ambassador's residence. A CIA agent comes up with a plan to rescue them by pretending to be a Hollywood producer scouting for a sci-fi film. With the help of a film producer and make-up artist, they create a cover story and successfully exfiltrate the Americans from Iran.

In Tiger Zinda Hai, an Indian nurse is taken hostage in Iraq by a terrorist organization. A team of Indian and Pakistani spies must come together to rescue her and defeat the warlord. With intense gunfights, battles, and rescue missions, this action-packed movie takes you on a thrilling snow adventure.

Lymelife is a coming-of-age drama that takes place in suburban America during the late 1970s. The film explores various themes including love, family dynamics, and infidelity. It follows the lives of two families and the complex relationships that unfold within them. As the teenagers in the film navigate first love and sexual awakening, the adults grapple with their own marital issues and the consequences of their actions. Lymelife captures the innocence, turmoil, and disillusionment of adolescence in the midst of the American Dream.

Militant Islam enjoyed its first modern triumph with the arrival in power of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran in 1979. In this series of three programmes, key figures tell the inside story.

Today, Israel and the United States are Iran's enemies par excellence. Their reconciliation seems impossible. Is the history of these three countries the chronicle of a war foretold, delayed for decades but inevitable?

November 4, 1979, Iranian student activists stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking over 60 Americans hostage. A 48-hour sit-in to protest imperialism, turned into an international crisis and 24/7 media event that would last 444 days.

This film follows the odyssey of a group of Iranian immigrants in Los Angeles, trying to find their place in America amidst the unfolding of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.

Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project is a documentary film that tells the story of Marion Stokes, an activist and video archivist who obsessively recorded television news for over 30 years. The film explores her life, her hoarding of videotapes, and the impact of her collection on journalism, technology, and the future of archival preservation.

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People takes a critical look at the negative and stereotypical representation of Arabs and Muslims in American cinema. Examining the history of Arab and Muslim characterizations on screen, the documentary reveals the impact of these portrayals on real-life perceptions and contributes to the perpetuation of stereotypes. Through interviews with scholars, activists, and filmmakers, the film aims to shed light on the racial profiling, propaganda, and prejudice prevalent in the film industry.

An Iranian-born teenager living in suburban New Jersey thinks of herself as simply an American until anti-Iranian sentiment erupts in her community after American hostages are held in Iran.

On January 20, 1981, 52 members of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran were released after 444 days of captivity. Told by those who lived through it, a crisis that traumatized America and upset the political balance in the Middle East.

Set against a backdrop of greed, corruption and political intrigue, lies a story of love, power and betrayal. Beginning with a revolution, and ending on the other side of the world, it is a story about money, oil , and a clandestine romance of abeautiful woman in love with a man from a foreign land.. This is where cultures clash, friendships tested, bonds broken and lives lost, in an international conspiracy of lies, spies and secret agendas, hidden behind a Golden Veil.

The true story behind one the of most daring rescues in modern US history: a secret mission to free hostages captured during the 1979 Iranian revolution.

This short film, made with my friends and filmmaking partners, Michel Negroponte and Alex Anthony, was commissioned by PBS's innovative TV Lab in 1980. The three of us saw Kazem Ala, an Iranian student and political exile, briefly interviewed on a local cable access show in Austin, Texas and were very moved by his story. We spent a month filming his day to day life in Houston, during the Iranian-American hostage crisis of 1980. The film was meant to describe in subtle ways what it is to be a political exile in times of political crisis. PBS found it to be a little too subtle, and declined to air it nationally, but the film was televised on various individual PBS outlets, and seeing it recently, I was struck by how, a generation later, we're still dealing with this same situation - the clash between Islam and the West. The Presidents and Ayatollahs may have changed, but politically, things are still at crisis level. - Ross McElwee

Twenty-five years after the end of the Iran hostage crisis, Wild Eyes Productions & Discovery Times Channel bring you the definitive portrait of one of the most important events of the 20th century. Based on the book, Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islam, by Mark Bowden (Black Hawk Down, 1999; Killing Pablo, 2001), this four-part documentary series offers a comprehensive, detailed account of the events through the eyes and words of the key players. Go inside the daily lives of the hostages, and hear from the Iranian student captors, the U.S. soldiers sent on the impossible rescue mission and the diplomats working to end the crisis. Guests of the Ayatollah is a suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world.