In 2007, the Taliban kidnapped 24-year-old Ajmal Naqshbandi and an Italian journalist. Naqshbandi was one of Afghanistan's best "fixers" -- someone hired by foreign journalists to facilitate, translate, and gain access for their stories.

After the Kyrgyzstan Independence in 1991, the ancient practice of Ala-Kachuu ("grab and run") retur...

According to the official history of Afghanistan, ruthless destruction has always prevailed over art...
This documentary shows the enormous media impact that the abduction story has had over the years. It...

Directors Hetherington and Junger spend a year with the 2nd Battalion of the United States Army loca...

Danish soldiers are sent to Afghanistan in 2009 for 6 months, to help stabilize the country against ...

At the age of 10, Natascha Kampusch was kidnapped and held captive for eight years by a deranged man...

Documentary shedding light on the emotional fallout of the murder of Sarah Payne, the eight-year-old...

A family falls prey to the manipulative charms of a neighbor, who abducts their adolescent daughter....
At the peak of her immense popularity in the 1920s, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was drawing la...

The friendship between Christophe de Ponfilly and Commander Massoud, a legendary figure of the Afgha...

A documentary recounting the kidnappings of British Trade Commissioner James Cross and Quebec Vice-P...

In June of 2002, Salt Lake City was the setting for a chilling kidnapping. An angelic young girl is ...

Ghostly images of Colombia’s jungle landscapes are set to radio transmissions sent by family members...

In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and...

She was once as famous as Jackie O—and then she tried to take down a President. Martha Mitchell was ...

Australian filmmaker Jordan Bryon has been living and working as a journalist and filmmaker in Afgha...

The story of the freed female hostages of Boko Haram, detailing their lives in captivity and since t...

Realizing the urban legend of their youth has actually come true, two filmmakers delve into the myst...