54 Hours: The Gladbeck Hostage Crisis (Season 1)

54 Hours: The Gladbeck Hostage Crisis (Gladbeck, 2018) is a German crime drama you can watch online on iFILM. In August 1988, two armed men walked out of a bank in the small town of Gladbeck with employees as hostages — and triggered a pursuit that lasted 54 hours across two countries.

The gunmen hijacked a bus, moved their hostages over the Dutch border, and gave live interviews to journalists while police struggled to contain the situation without further bloodshed. Director Kilian Riedhof reconstructed the timeline from archive footage and survivor accounts. Starring Sascha Alexander Geršak and Alexander Scheer, the series is as much about media complicity as it is about the crime itself. Stream 54 Hours online on iFILM.