The Negotiators

Name: The Negotiators
Released: 2019-10-09T00:00:00.000Z

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

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.