
Prison Riot, U.S.A.
Episode 1 • Dec 09, 2016
On Easter Sunday in 1993, inmates at a maximum security prison in Lucasville, Ohio, riot and take eight guards hostage, leading to a 10-day standoff.
This documentary series reconstructs history's most complex, high-stakes hostage negotiations as kidnapping victims recount their terrifying ordeals.
8 episodes total
Status
Ended
First Aired
2016
Rating
6.3/10
16 votes • HD
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Episodes
Episode 1 • Dec 09, 2016
On Easter Sunday in 1993, inmates at a maximum security prison in Lucasville, Ohio, riot and take eight guards hostage, leading to a 10-day standoff.
Episode 2 • Dec 09, 2016
During a wave of kidnappings in early-1990s Brazil, a local Coca-Cola bottling executive is ambushed at gunpoint and held for a ransom of millions.
Episode 3 • Dec 09, 2016
Sailing the Indian Ocean on their yacht, British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler are kidnapped by Somali pirates and held for an exorbitant ransom.
Episode 4 • Dec 09, 2016
The long captivity of American missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham by Philippine terror group Abu Sayyaf takes on new urgency after 9/11.
Episode 5 • Dec 09, 2016
A pair of British aid workers establishing a children's rehab center in war-torn Chechnya are taken prisoner and held for a year.
Episode 6 • Dec 09, 2016
When Israeli forces invade Bethlehem in 2002, dozens of Palestinians take refuge in the Church of the Nativity, sparking a monthlong standoff.
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