The nuanced Hold Your Fire documents the real-time invention of hostage negotiations - The A.V. Club

A 1973 standoff between would-be thieves and the NYPD could have gone very wrong. Stefan Forbes' documentary reveals why it didn't.

In the Star Trek episode A Taste of Armageddon, William Shatners Captain Kirk gives a memorable speech to the head a planetary faction engaged in a seemingly intractable civil war. Were human beings … [+4747 chars]

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