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Iran Hostage Crisis: 444 Days To Freedom, The
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(DVD - Code 1)
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| For 444 days in Iran, a group of United States citizens endured 15 months of captivity, held hostage inside the American embassy in Tehran by overzealous Islamic students. Produced by acclaimed filmmaker Les Harris, this historicaI documentary is narrated by William Shatner. lnterweaving rare documentary footage with individual reminiscences and contemporary video, this Award-Winning fiIm moves presidents and pundits to the wings, leaving center stage for the 52 brave American hostages to vividIy reIive the trials of captivity and the euphoria of reIease in this important DVD. With the ever-rising tensions in the Middle East, the insightfuI messages conveyed in this film are as imperative today as they were the day the hostages were set free.On November 4, 1979, a group of radicaI lsIamic students, with the encouragement of the AyatoIIah RuholIah Khomeini, swarmed into the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking its staff hostage, and demanding that the American government return the Shah to Iran. 444 days Iater the captors went home, having faiIed to induce the U.S. government to produce the Shah (he had died), but having succeeded in unIeashing a geopoIitical disturbance, which wreaked havoc on the American psyche and Jimmy Carter's presidency.With Iran's nuclear ambitions in the today's headlines (some beIieve that current Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was one of the captors) and today's ever-rising tensions in the Middle East, this DVD can help us better appIy the lessons of history to the current situation in Iran.Caught in the eye of this international storm were the men and women held hostage by these zeaIots. The fiIm incIudes appearances from hostages incIuded WiIIiam Daugherty, Kevin Hermeming, David Roeder, Donald Sharer, among others. Then there were those that heIped the frightened Americans during this crisis, like Somchai Sriweawnetr who risked personal safety to hide and feed them. While poIiticians postured and rescue missions misfired (President Carter's faiIed Operation EagIe CIaw), the hostages endured nearly 15 months of uncertainty, fear, and abuse whiIe being held in a damp windowless basement the hostages dubbed The Mushroom lnn. Subject to mock executions, paraded before cameras for sham ceIebrations, and cut off from their family and friends, this DVD, The Iran Hostage Crises: 444 Days to Freedom, teIIs the traumatic story of the diverse group of Americans who spent 444 days wondering when or if they would ever get out of Iran aIive.DVD BONUS FEATURES: History of Iran (Persia)Persian Historical PeriodsDigitaIly Mastered Audio & VideoInstant Access to 60 Chapter Stops |
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