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Showcases Argo, the top-secret CIA mission created to rescue six Americans who escaped from the U.S. Embassy takeover in Tehran during 1979. The program analyzes the Iran Hostage crisis, revealing the actions taken by the escapees to seek safety with Canadian diplomats in Tehran. After learning of the six escaped Americans, CIA agent Tony Mendez devises a cunning plan to rescue the group of diplomats by disguising them as a Hollywood film crew.
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"Argo": Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.
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In November 1979, the American embassy in Tehran was invaded by a group of radical students who took 54 workers hostage. However, six diplomats secretly escaped. Here, author Robert Wright chronicles the escapees' harrowing ordeal and the men and women who were working undercover in Tehran to bring the hostage crisis to an end.
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"Czwartego listopada 1979 roku tlum iranskich studentów wdarl sie na teren amerykanskiej ambasady w Teheranie. Kilkudziesieciu pracowników placówki zostalo zatrzymanych w charakterze zakladników. Trwajacy 444 dni kryzys wywolal prawdziwa burze w swiecie polityki, a jego skutki odczuwamy do dzis. To powszechnie znane fakty, natomiast malo kto wie, ze równolegle do tamtych wydarzen rozgrywal sie dramat szesciorga dyplomatów zbieglych z ambasady....
38) Argo: The town
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Argo (2012, 120 min.): Based on the true-life heroics of CIA agent Tony Mendez and his efforts to rescue six American diplomats from Iran during the revolution and hostage crisis. Disguised as a film crew, they must hide in plain sight to make their escape.
Town (2010, 125 min.): A longtime thief simultaneously plans his biggest score and exit from the life while dodging the FBI looking to take him and his crew down.
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Argo: On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants storm the American embassy in Tehran and capture dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal. There's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escape and a mid-level CIA agent named Antonio Mendez devises an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them. Based on the declassified true story.
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