The Negotiators

TV Show · Crime · Documentary

We meet negotiators who can talk down people armed with explosives, bargain with ruthless Somali pirates, deal with rebels who have stormed an embassy, and confront a notorious criminal threatening to kill a family of five. We get into the minds of the mediators involved in these life-and-death situations to understand what it takes to navigate a crisis, where one wrong move could prove deadly.

2019 · 45m

Season 1

  • Pirate Hijack
    EPISODE 1
    Pirate Hijack
    A pro bono team of hostage negotiators take on a near-impossible case - help free 29 fishermen who have been held hostage by Somali pirates for over two years.
    43 min
  • Taipei Hostage Crisis
    EPISODE 2
    Taipei Hostage Crisis
    Taiwan's most-wanted criminal holds a South African diplomat's family hostage at gunpoint. Negotiators find themselves trying to do their work in the midst of a frantic media circus.
    43 min
  • Sydney Siege
    EPISODE 3
    Sydney Siege
    Police negotiators are called into a local welfare office. 27 people have been taken hostage by an armed couple threatening to blow everyone up unless their 3-month-old baby is returned to them.
    43 min
  • Embassy Under Siege
    EPISODE 4
    Embassy Under Siege
    Armed rebels have seized 89 people in the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok, and Thai negotiators must stop them from killing hostages every half an hour.
    43 min
  • The Negotiators vs Armed Security Guard
    EPISODE 1
    The Negotiators vs Armed Security Guard
    After he is fired from his job, former security guard Alchie Paray shoots a colleague and holds 55 people hostage at a shopping mall in San Juan City, Metro Manila.
    46 min
  • The Negotiators vs Rogue Cop
    EPISODE 2
    The Negotiators vs Rogue Cop
    In 1996, Louisiana Sheriff's Deputy Chad Louviere rapes a woman, storms into the bank where his estranged wife works, kills a teller in cold blood and takes the six remaining women inside hostage.
    46 min

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The Negotiators

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We meet negotiators who can talk down people armed with explosives, bargain with ruthless Somali pirates, deal with rebels who have stormed an embassy, and confront a notorious criminal threatening to kill a family of five. We get into the minds of the mediators involved in these life-and-death situations to understand what it takes to navigate a crisis, where one wrong move could prove deadly.

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2019

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Select a country or region

Africa, Middle East, and India

  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bahrain
  • Botswana
  • Brunei Darussalam
  • Cape Verde
  • Egypt
  • Eswatini
  • Gambia
  • Ghana
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • India
  • Israel
  • Jordan
  • Lebanon
  • Mauritius
  • Mozambique
  • Namibia
  • Niger (English)
  • Oman
  • Qatar
  • Saudi Arabia
  • South Africa
  • Sri Lanka
  • Tajikistan
  • Turkmenistan
  • Uganda
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Zimbabwe

Asia Pacific

  • Australia
  • Cambodia
  • Fiji
  • 香港
  • Indonesia (English)
  • 日本
  • Lao People's Democratic Republic
  • 澳門
  • Malaysia (English)
  • Micronesia, Federated States of
  • Mongolia
  • New Zealand
  • Philippines
  • Singapore
  • 대한민국
  • 台灣
  • Thailand
  • Turkmenistan
  • Vietnam

Europe

  • Armenia
  • Österreich
  • Belarus
  • Belgium
  • Bulgaria
  • Cyprus
  • Czechia
  • Denmark
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • France (Français)
  • Deutschland
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Ireland
  • Italia
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg (English)
  • Malta
  • Moldova, Republic Of
  • Nederland
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Portugal (Português)
  • Россия
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • España
  • Sverige
  • Schweiz
  • Türkiye (English)
  • Ukraine
  • United Kingdom

Latin America and the Caribbean

  • Anguilla
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Argentina (Español)
  • Bahamas
  • Belize
  • Bermuda
  • Bolivia (Español)
  • Brasil
  • Virgin Islands, British
  • Cayman Islands
  • Chile (Español)
  • Colombia (Español)
  • Costa Rica (Español)
  • Dominica
  • República Dominicana
  • Ecuador (Español)
  • El Salvador (Español)
  • Grenada
  • Guatemala (Español)
  • Honduras (Español)
  • México
  • Nicaragua (Español)
  • Panamá
  • Paraguay (Español)
  • Perú
  • St. Kitts and Nevis
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Venezuela (Español)

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