1979 年 11 月 4 日，伊朗的革命军攻进了美国在伊朗德黑兰的大使馆，将大使馆的工作人员劫为人质。有超过 50 名人员被关押，但有 6 人逃脱，并躲在加拿大驻伊朗大使 Ken Taylor（维克多·加博 Victor Garber 饰）的家里。CIA 高层 Jack O'Donnell（ 布莱恩·科兰斯顿 Bryan Cranston 饰）找到专家 Tony Mendez（本·阿弗莱克 Ben Affleck 饰），让他协助将那六个人带回美国。经过讨论后，CIA 决定采取 Tony 的办法，以拍摄电影的名义，Tony 到伊朗将那六个人带回。Tony 联系了他在好莱坞的朋友，化妆师 John Chambers（约翰·古德曼 John Goodman 饰），并联系了电影制片人 Lester（艾伦·阿金 Alan Arkin 饰）。Tony 在许多剧本中选中了《ARGO》，一部和《星球大战》极为类似的电影。于是他作为制片人带着剧本和各种道具前往伊朗，找到了那六个人，开始了艰苦的逃离德黑兰之路……
根据真实事件改编。《猛虎还活着》是《代号猛虎行动》的续集，堪称印度版《战狼2》。本片，描述了印度情报局联手巴基斯坦情报局，两国特工尽弃前嫌，联手拯救40名护士于伊拉克恐怖组织ISC的魔掌……
Marion Stokes secretly recorded television 24 hours a day for 30 years from 1975 until her death in 2012. For Marion taping was a form of activism to seek the truth, and she believed that a comprehensive archive of the media would be invaluable for future generations. Her visionary and maddening project nearly tore her family apart, but now her 70,000 VHS tapes are being digitized and they'll be searchable online.
On January 20, 1981, 52 members of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran were released after 444 days of captivity. Told by those who lived through it, a crisis that traumatized America and upset the political balance in the Middle East.
The true story behind one the of most daring rescues in modern US history: a secret mission to free hostages captured during the 1979 Iranian revolution.
Set against a backdrop of greed, corruption and political intrigue, lies a story of love, power and betrayal. Beginning with a revolution, and ending on the other side of the world, it is a story about money, oil , and a clandestine romance of abeautiful woman in love with a man from a foreign land.. This is where cultures clash, friendships tested, bonds broken and lives lost, in an international conspiracy of lies, spies and secret agendas, hidden behind a Golden Veil.