2026 Nominees

Prisoner 951: The Hostages' Story

Dancing Ledge Productions, BBC

UK

- Social Issues & Current Affairs

Prisoner 951: The Hostages’ Story is a powerful, deeply human account of one of Britain’s defining modern hostage crises. It follows Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s six-year imprisonment in Iran and her husband Richard’s extraordinary public fight to bring her home. Featuring Nazanin’s first ever in depth on-camera interview and rare political testimony from senior British figures, the film exposes the murky world of diplomacy and how ordinary citizens become leverage in global power games. Told with deeply sensitivity and heartbreaking honesty, this cinematic film transforms a headline story into living history, revealing courage, love, and the moral cost of political compromise.