1945 - Nazi POWs are brought to New York by ship, and searched on the dock.
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USA - 1925 - In this silent western, an outlaw commandeers a train to transport his pretty captive.
USA - 1917 - In this silent comedy, a man hides in a chest stolen by a gang of thieves.
USA - 1925 - In this silent western, a noble cowboy follows a group of bandits as they lock up captives in an old cabin.
USA - 1925 - In this silent western, outlaws pretend to give captives a chance to escape.
USA - 1917 - In this silent comedy, a woman kidnapped by a gang is revealed to be Queen of the Apaches.
USA - 1925 - In this silent western, bandits stick up a traveling rancher in coordination with one of his men.
USA - 1925 - In this silent western, a heroic cowboy knocks out every member of an outlaw gang who have kidnapped his girlfriend and her father.
USA - 1928 - In this animated film, Mickey Mouse uses his tail like a lasso to scale a tall building where Minnie Mouse has been kidnapped.
USA - 1925 - In this silent western, thieves start to split up the spoils from a robbery.
USA - 1925 - In this silent western, a cowboy finds the home base of an outlaw gang.
USA - 1928 - In this animated film, Mickey Mouse saves Minnie Mouse by sword fighting her kidnapper and they escape on an ostrich.
USA - 1965 - In this sci-fi movie, USAF fighter jets are ordered to stop firing on a spaceship when officers learn there are kidnapped women aboard.
1961 - Passengers on the Santa Maria, a Portuguese cruiser hijacked by political rebels, are rescued in Brazil.
1959 - In this animated film, Daniel Boone is captured by Native Americans in Cumberland Gap but manages to escape.
1963 - Ransomed prisoners from Cuba disembark a plane at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida.
USA - 1965 - In this sci-fi movie, a scientist tries to move a radioactive creature while aliens take human women hostage and soldiers search for them all.
USA - 1965 - In this sci-fi movie, humanoid aliens put kidnapped woman onto a conveyor belt on their spaceship.
USA - 1965 - In this sci-fi movie, a humanoid alien princess abducts a woman and looks her over.
Portrait of a female biologist in a protective mask and a white dressing gown in glasses, which, with rude captives, explores an underground facility.
USA - 1917 - In this silent comedy, policemen hurry to the scene when kidnappers send a woman skyward strapped to an explosive.
USA - 1965 - In this sci-fi movie, USAF airmen fly in to rescue a woman and radioactive creature kidnapped by aliens.
USA - 1965 - In this sci-fi movie, humanoid alien captors threaten a woman they've kidnapped.
1963 - Ransomed prisoners from Cuba are reunited with their families in a hangar at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida, and attorney James Donovan is celebrated for his role in negotiating their release.
USA - 1917 - In this silent comedy, a man calls the police about a woman who's been kidnapped and strapped to a bomb.
USA - 1917 - In this silent comedy, a man sneaks into the lab of kidnapped scientists to steal their notes.
1963 - Ransomed prisoners from Cuba are reunited with their families on Christmas, and pray at church in Miami, Florida.
USA - 1917 - In this silent comedy, multiple different people try sneaking into a scientific lab to steal new inventions.
1954 - Policemen show the evidence collected to recover kidnapping victim Leonard Moskowitz, and the man is reunited with his family.
Two captives cheetahs Acinonyx jubatus petting each other Lunaret zoo Montpellier. Enclosure in background
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USA - 1934 - In this comedy, kidnappers fume that the reward offered for the rescue of their captive is much less than the ransom they asked for.
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USA - 1934 - In this comedy, a man disguises himself as a kidnapping victim to claim the reward money but ends up getting found by the real captive's wife.
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KOREA - 1953 - Repatriated American soldiers share coffee and are interviewed in Korea.
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1922 - In this silent comedy western, a man being pursued by Native Americans takes another man (Buster Keaton) hostage and makes him swap clothes.
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1922 - In this silent comedy western, a white man (Buster Keaton) almost escapes capture from Native Americans by sliding down a long hill and jumping into a tree, but he is eventually caught and put on a stake.
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1922 - In this silent comedy western, Native Americans tie a captive (Buster Keaton) to a stake, which he discovers he can move while they collect kindling.
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1915 - In this silent comedy, a woman breaks down the door to a room where a hysterical man has been locked in. Policemen on their way keep getting car trouble.
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USA - 1912 - In this silent western, the wife of a Native American chief frees a settler woman being held captive and also reunites her with her kidnapped baby.
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1915 - In this silent comedy, police keep hitting roadblocks trying to reach a factory where a woman is trapped in a flooded room, and her colleagues try to help her out.
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1922 - In this silent comedy western, Native Americans pile kindling to burn a captive at the stake, unaware that he (Buster Keaton) is in disguise directing them until his robe falls off.
Vertical POV shot of female criminal pointing gun at captives robbing bank then demanding money from cashier working with male accomplice
Parakeet on a branch in French Guiana zoo Forpus passerinus
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KOREA - 1953 - General Taylor, Secretary Dulles and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. meet with repatriated soldiers in Korea.
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VIETNAM - 1967 - Children sit among restrained Viet Cong prisoners.
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USA - 1912 - In this silent western, a woman who has been captured by Native Americans sees that her baby has been kidnapped also.
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USA - 1957 - In this Western film, a white man mocks an Indigenous chief who responds by threatening to scalp him.