Hostage in Iran

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Hostage in Iran

by: PBS Video., Canamedia Productions., WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)

Publication date: 1984

Topics: frontline (television program),Iran Hostage Crisis (1979-1981),Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981,Hostages -- Iran,Terrorism,Hostages,Politics and government,Iran -- Politics and government -- 1979-1997,Iran

Publisher: Alexandria, Va. : PBS Video [distributor]

Language: English

Item Size: 1.6G

For 444 days, all of America wondered what was happening behind the wall of the American embassy compound in Iran. Film recaptures those fearful days as it reveals the full extent of the terror to which the Americans were subjected by their militant Islamic captors.

2 videocassettes (VHS) (90 min.) : 1/2 in

Host, Judy Woodruff ; narrator, Will Lyman

"A production of Canamedia Productions Ltd. for Frontline. Frontline is produced for the Documentary Consortium by WGBH-Boston."

Broadcast over PBS as a segment of: Frontline

Issued also as U-matic 3/4 in. or Beta 1/2 in

Producer, Les Harris; executive producer, David Ianning, Will Lyman; copyright Canamedia Productions, Ltd