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hostages

n. (plural of hostage English)

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Hostages (disambiguation)

Hostages may refer to:

  • Hostage, a person or entity which is held by one of two belligerent parties to the other
  • Hostages (Israeli TV series), an Israeli drama television series
  • Hostages (U.S. TV series), an American drama television series
  • Hostages (film), a war film produced by Paramount Pictures and released in 1943
  • Hostages (video game), a 1988 computer game developed by New Frontier and published by Infogrames
  • The Hostages, a 1975 British adventure film directed by David Eady
Hostages (video game)

Hostages is an action video game developed by New Frontier and published by Infogrames. It was released for the Acorn Electron, Archimedes, Atari ST, Amiga, Apple IIGS, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, DOS, MSX, NES and ZX Spectrum platforms in . The game was released as Hostage: Rescue Mission in the United States and Operation Jupiter in France; the NES port was titled Rescue: The Embassy Mission.

Hostages (U.S. TV series)

Hostages is an American drama television series that aired on CBS as part of the 2013–14 American television season. Developed for American television by Alon Aranya and Jeffrey Nachmanoff, it is based on the Israeli series of the same name created by Omri Givon and Rotem Shamir and produced by Chaim Sharir, which premiered on October 13, 2013, almost three weeks after the American version's premiere. Jeffrey Nachmanoff wrote and directed the pilot episode for the American version. The series premiered on September 23, 2013 and ended on January 6, 2014.

On May 10, 2014, CBS announced the cancellation of Hostages after one season.

The show is shot on location in New York.

Hostages (Israeli TV series)

Hostages (Hebrew: בני ערובה; Bnei Aruba) is an Israeli drama television series that was first broadcast on Channel 10 in October 2013. The series was created by Rotem Shamir and Omri Givon and produced by Chaim Sharir.

Hostages (film)

Hostages is a war film produced by Paramount Pictures and released in 1943. It was directed by Frank Tuttle from a script by Frank Butler and Lester Cole based on the 1942 novel of the same name by Stefan Heym. The film stars Luise Rainer, Arturo de Cordova, William Bendix and Paul Lukas and features Katina Paxinou and Oskar Homolka.

Usage examples of "hostages".

Third, Saddam believes it was a mistake to have released his Western hostages in December 1990, rather than keeping them and placing them at high-value facilities that the regime did not want to have bombed.

Pumas or Chinooks, depending on where the target is and where we can get the aircraft in, then straight in and take it out, grab the hostages, into the aircraft and back over.

Some of us sneaked in ahead at night and set up a position in a row of houses overlooking the square where the hostages were.

Most of them were looting the town, but there was a guard of several hundred around the hostages in the square.

Simbas had threatened to kill all the hostages if attacked, and God knows, they had had enough practice at massacres.

Simbas from killing the hostages until the main force could punch its way through.

Most of the hostages were left alive under guard, just sitting or trying to sleep on the ground, but a steady trickle was taken for the amusement of the Simbas and tortured to death.

If any act of hostility is directed against the Tielen army, all Azhkendi hostages are to be executed.

She said to tell you that the Jedi accept no responsibility for the hostages, and that any emissary you send with a similar threat will not be returned.

She felt a wave of fear that convinced her Plaan had not been lying about his hostages - and also a feral stirring, a strange sense of hungry agitation unlike anything she had ever experienced.

He will spare the Talfaglion hostages as long as the New Republic continues to turn over its Jedi.

The deliberate approach, he suspected, had less to do with a fear of space mines or ambushes than allowing the hostages plenty of time to contemplate their doom.

Still, he failed to see how intelligent beings could be persuaded that the utter destruction of an enemy fleet and the rescue of a planetful of hostages was a bad thing.

Refugee ships would be good - the furor over the hostages at Talfaglio had proven how vulnerable to such techniques the New Republic really was.

They asked for an exchange of hostages too, of course, but I told her that was nonsense!