Surviving Disaster
Iran Hostage Rescue
TV-PG
S1 • E6 Feb 20, 2006 60mIn November 1979, Iranian militants seized the US embassy in Tehran, taking 66 Americans hostage. President Carter ordered an elite US military force to launch a top-secret rescue, Operation Eagle Claw. This re-creation of the dramatic events splices the action with archive footage of those directly involved.