Captive, the new docu-serie you should see

In 2008 British film-maker Sean Langan was kidnapped in a remote area in Pakistan, while he was working on a production for Channel 4. The negotiations for Sean Langan's release were carried out by British Government, which took the position of to not give in to kidnappers's extortion, triggering some complicated and unclear situations. Finally, Sean Langan was released, but the case revealed some politics controversies which were the background for negotiating.

Sean Langan's story is just the starting point of the Netflix's new TV serie Captive, directed by Oscar-winning Simon Chinn and produced by Lightbox, his cousin Jonathan Chinn's production company.

The Captive’s most important thing is its documentary cut: in fact, after a first step, the director decided to change the TV in a documentary. That's not all, the docu-serie, that consist of eight hour’s  episodes, proposes eight different stories.

“We really wanted this to be a snapshot of hostage taking around the world – and they embraced that in a way that possibly no one else would or could”, said Simon Chinn during an interview with Dazed & Confused. And we think he did it right, creating eight different stories, in eight diverse countries around the world, each of which have specific developments. 

From first episode Prison Riot, sets in Ohio in 1993, until the kidnapping of a British couple made by some Somali pirates in 2002, the serie appears as a true and hardh analysis of the kidnapping’s phenomenon.