On the first day of Operation Desert Storm, John Peters and his co-pilot John Nichol are shot down by a shoulder-launched missile, enduring a seven-week period of mental and physical torture at the hands of their captors.

Journalist Michael Scott Moore travels to Somalia to research and report on the piracy crisis in the country and is captured and held in extreme conditions for over two and a half years by Somali pirates.

Sailing the world, the Robertson family's journey is ended by killer whales.

Peter Shaw is ready to return home when he is kidnapped and held underground.

In Iraq for work, UK citizen Peter Moore is taken hostage by the Shia militia.

Aid worker Ian Purchase is kidnapped and imprisoned by Taliban extremists.