Hostage
Hostage is a TV show on BBC2. The rise of a violent rogue state and the journalists who disappeared. Loyalty and coercion collide in Islamic State Group's chilling kidnap of James Foley and John Cantlie. The program has been available since 2026. A total of 3 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in March 2026.
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After the murder of James Foley shocks the world, John Cantlie appears online in Islamic State videos, raising chilling questions about loyalty, coercion and survival.
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The kidnap of John and James sparks a perilous manhunt as Islamic State emerges, more journalists join them in captivity and survival becomes a desperate struggle.
In 2012, photojournalists John Cantlie and James Foley chase a scoop in Syria, but their reporting draws the attention of jihadists, and the net closes in on them.