Zero Hour

As two armed-robbers terrorize staff and customers inside a Bank of America branch in San Fernando Valley, North Hollywood, they are oblivious to the mounting police presence outside the building. The scene is set for the most extraordinary and violent shootout in modern American police history.

The brutal massacre of ten members of the Nepalese Royal Family in June 2001 shocked the world, and brought a nation to the brink of destruction. As the whole of Nepal struggled to come to terms with the senseless slaughter, many refused to believe the truth: that Crown Prince Dipendra had gunned down nine members of his own family.

As six British soldiers sit imprisoned in a hut in the jungles of Sierra Leone, their captors - a heavily-armed militia group known as the West Side Boys - are mostly sleeping. But unknown to either group, an audacious S.A.S. rescue mission is moments away. Zero Hour arrives as 5 helicopters carrying more than 120 paratroopers appear over the horizon.

Falling Star counts down the final hour of one of the most catastrophic events in the history of space aviation when the space shuttle Columbia, the most advanced vehicle ever built, disintegrates in a fireball in the sky over Texas. A story about the loss of seven lives on a mission that was doomed from the start, Zero Hour.

On April 22 1997 in Lima Peru, a deadly game is in play for the lives of 72 men, held hostage for 126 days by a revolutionary guerrilla movement at the Japanese Ambassador's residence. On one side of the siege is Nestor Cerpa Cartolini, a revolutionary and desperate man willing to kill for the woman he loves; on the other side a ruthless and corrupt political czar, Vladimiro Montesinos.

Shoot-Out in Marseilles chronicles the final sixty minutes of a two-day stand-off between Algerian hijackers and France's counter terrorist unit. Air France flight 8969 had first been hijacked in Algiers and was then permitted by Algerian authorities to fly to Marseilles.