In film and television

• The Hostage (1956 film)
• The Hostage (1983 film), a 1983 Australian film based on the true story of Christine Maresch.
• The Hostage (film)
  The Hostage (film)
  The Hostage is a 1967 Crown International low-budget motion picture starring Don O'Kelly, James Almanzar and Joanne Brown, with Leland Brown, John Carradine, and Harry Dean Stanton....
  
  , a 1967 film starring Don O'Kelly
• The Hostages
  The Hostages
  The Hostages is a 1975 British adventure film directed by David Eady and starring Stephen Garlick, Jayne Collins, Peter Marshall, Julian Holloway and Robin Askwith....
  
  , a 1975 British adventure film directed by David Eady
• The Three Hostages (film)
  The Three Hostages (film)
  The Three Hostages is a 1977 British television film directed by Clive Donner and based on the John Buchan thriller novel The Three Hostages. It starred Barry Foster, Diana Quick, John Castle and David Markham. Foster played the lead role of Richard Hannay, a retired British soldier who works...
  
  , a 1977 British television film directed by Clive Donner and based on the John Buchan thriller of the same name
• Under Siege (US) / Hostages (1980 film) (UK) (Traficantes de pánico), a movie directed by René Cardona Jr. (1980)
• Hostage (film), an 1987 American action film directed by Hanro Möhr
• Hostages (film), a 1993 HBO film starring Kathy Bates and Colin Firth, based on the Lebanon hostage crisis
  Lebanon hostage crisis
  The Lebanon hostage crisis refers to the systematic kidnapping in Lebanon of 96 foreign hostages of 21 national origins – mostly American and western European – between 1982 and 1992...
  
  
• The Hostage (1998 film), an action film featuring Ted Prior
• Hostage (Ομηρος), a 2005 Greek film starring Stathis Papadopoulos and directed by Constantine Giannaris.
• Hostage (film)
  Hostage (film)
  Hostage is a 2005 thriller film with Bruce Willis that was directed by Florent Emilio Siri. The film was based on a novel by Robert Crais, and was adapted for the screen by Doug Richardson....
  
  , a 2005 thriller starring Bruce Willis
• Hostage (TV series)
  Hostage (TV series)
  Hostage is a six-part Irish history documentary television series broadcast on RTÉ One in June 2008 each Friday at 20:30. The series spans a period from the 1970s to the 1990s and features footage from the RTÉ Archive Production Unit of bank raids and political kidnaps in remote locations such as...
  
  , a six-part Irish history documentary television series
• Hostages (1992 TV series), television series
• "The Hostage", an episode of the British sitcom Up the Elephant and Round the Castle

In literature

• Hostage (novel)
  Hostage (novel)
  Hostage is a 2001 thriller novel by Robert Crais, set in Bristo Bay, California, about a small town police chief named Jeff Talley with memories of a failed hostage situation, who must negotiate the same type of situation in his own town if he wants his own family to live...
  
  , a novel by Robert Crais, basis for the 2005 film
• The Hostage (play)
  The Hostage (play)
  The Hostage is a loose 1958 English version, with songs, adapted in a much longer text from a one-act Irish language play An Giall, by its author, Brendan Behan.-Plot:...
  
  , a 1958 play by Brendan Behan
• The Hostage (1959 novel), a novel by Henry Farrell
  Henry Farrell
  Henry Farrell was an American novelist and screenwriter, best known as the author of the renowned gothic horror story What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, which was made into a film starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.-Life and work:He was born Charles Farrell Myers in California, and grew up in...
  
  , basis for the 1967 film
• "The Hostage", a short story by C. S. Forester
  C. S. Forester
  Cecil Scott "C.S." Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith , an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of naval warfare. His most notable works were the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen...
  
  
• "The Hostage" (ballad) (German: "Die Bürgschaft"), a 1798 ballad by Friedrich Schiller
• The Three Hostages
  The Three Hostages
  The Three Hostages is the fourth of five Richard Hannay novels by Scottish author John Buchan, first published in 1924 by Hodder & Stoughton, London....
  
  , a 1924 novel by John Buchan, basis for the above film
• The Hostage (Yemeni novel)
  The Hostage (Yemeni novel)
  Al-Rahinah or The Hostage is a Yemeni short novel by Zayd Mutee' Dammaj. It was selected by the Arab Writers Union as one of the 100 best Arabic novels of the 20th century. To date, the novel has been translated into French, English , German and Hindi....
  
  (Arabic: Al-Rahinah), a 1984 novel by Zayd Mutee' Dammaj
  Zayd Mutee' Dammaj
  Zayd Mutee' Dammaj was a Yemeni author and politician. He is best known for his short novel The Hostage which was selected by the Arab Writers Union as one of the top 100 Arabic novels of the 20th century.-Life and work:...
  
  

In music

• Hostage (album)
  Hostage (album)
  Hostage is the eight release, and sixth studio album, from American Christian rock band Resurrection Band , released in late 1984.-Recording history:...
  
  , a 1984 album by Resurrection Band
• "The Hostage" (song)
  The Hostage (song)
  "The Hostage" is a 1974 pop-rock song released by Donna Summer on the Groovy record label. It was the first single from Summer's debut album Lady of the Night, which was released in Europe but not any other continent...
  
  , a song by Donna Summer
• "The Hostage", a song by Tom Paxton, recorded by Judy Collins on the album True Stories and Other Dreams
  True Stories and Other Dreams
  True Stories and Other Dreams is an album by American singer Judy Collins, released in 1973. It peaked at No 27 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts....
  
  
• "Hostage", a song by Mike Oldfield from Earth Moving
  Earth Moving
  Earth Moving is the 12th record album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1989.- Album analysis :Oldfield used several vocalists on the album, including his then girlfriend, Anita Hegerland. The album's music was performed mainly with synthesizers...
  
  
• Hostage, an electronic musician from Scotland

Other uses

• Hostages (video game), 1988 video game by Infogrames
• "Hostage" (CSI: NY episode)
• In machine translation
  Machine translation
  Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of computer software to translate text or speech from one natural language to another.On a basic...
  
  s from German, a rendering of "Geisel" in names, e.g. "hostage valley" for Geiseltal
  Geiseltal
  The Geisel valley is a valley in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, situated west of Merseburg, Saalekreis district. It is named after the River Geisel which rises in Mücheln and is a tributary of the Saale, just under 25 km long....