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A small, Finnish seaside town is preparing to celebrate midsummer's eve. An unknown enemy arrives and takes the entire area hostage.

In it we travel to Barcelona in 1981, specifically to May 23 of that year. Exactly three months have passed since the attempted coup d'état in the Congress of Deputies and the population is barely recovering from the shock. Then eleven hooded men enter the headquarters of the Central Bank of Barcelona. So it's time to prepare for a spectacular robbery on television, but what viewers don't imagine is that this assault soon becomes a real challenge for the recent Spanish democracy. With more than 200 hostages in the bank, the robbers soon reveal a hidden objective that has nothing to do with obtaining financial loot.

"The Nine" tells the story of nine people who face an unexpected twist when they are caught in a bank robbery gone wrong and endure a 52-hour hostage standoff that will leave more than one person dead. When it is over, these people will never be the same.

The nerve-racking events of a cold winter's day, seen from two different perspectives. The odd episodes tell the story of a team of police negotiators and special forces who respond to a hostage crisis in a small bank branch. The even episodes tell exactly the same events, only through the eyes of the criminals inside and their victims.

President Reynolds and his wife are blindsided in the middle of the night by shocking reports that their daughter has been kidnapped from a New York nightclub. The situation rapidly escalates when, following the brutal shooting of a witness on live television, a Navy Seals Unit, led by Commander Christopher Lowe storms the parking garage where Alice Reynolds is being held.

Children caught in a deadly tornado, a catastrophic car accident, a violent hostage crisis in a maternity ward. It can happen anywhere at any time. In an instant, life can change forever, and that moment will define who you are. Returning for its second season, "In an Instant" does more than just re-tell heart-pounding first-person accounts of the world's most harrowing tales of survival; it brings them to life with breathtaking dramatizations of the moments before and after life was forever changed. The powerful series features trials and triumphs from every angle and includes gripping first-person interviews with the people who lived to tell their stories, and those who were instrumental in helping them survive. These are the stories of ordinary people who have watched their lives flash before their eyes, stared almost certain death in the face and overcame it. What key decisions did they make to save their lives?

Marie Tessier, 45, director of an NGO, is appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs the day when five Europeans, two of whom were taken hostage by terrorists in the Sahel. By making this crisis a personal affair, Marie will quickly cross all the red lines by trying to give the impression that everything is under control.

Acclaimed two-part series based on the true story of an unprecedented hostage crisis which shocked Germany in the summer of 1988. Two robbers hold up a bank and demand free passage from the police while taking bank employees hostage.

As thousands of angry protesters storm the Israeli embassy in Cairo, five Israeli embassy staff members find themselves trapped inside, as the steel door that separates them from being torn to pieces by violent mobs begins to collapse. No rescue force is able to reach them. The beseiged Israelis realize that these may be the last hours of their lives, and tensions begin to rise among them; Specifically between security agent Tal Shemtov, his childhood friend Roy Barzani, Chief of security and Shemtov's boss, and Barzani's neglected girlfriend Hagar, caught up in the middle with a secret of her own. At a time in history when political and personal interests mix, and values of solidarity and the promise that "no soldier is left behind" are left empty of meaning, unstable friendships and national relations between Egypt and Israel, are pushed to the brink of war.