A "hostage video" refers to a recording where someone who is being held against their will is forced to speak or appear on camera. It typically contains demands or statements made under duress.
Sentences with «hostage video»
He also described international figures backing the Remain campaign as appearing in «Downing Street hostage videos». (bbc.co.uk)
For all the subsequent failures in state building, air power performed just such a successful and important role against the Taliban in Afghanistan and pro-Gaddafi forces in Libya, and it is not for nothing that the cessation of bombing has been the principal demand issued in ISIS hostage videos. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
Audio clips of American soldiers narrating traumatic stories of their time in Iraq are superimposed over a stop motion animation video of an action figure seeking to liberate Mesopotamian votive figures from a museum display case (the toy soldier itself was chosen due a bizarre story in which it had been used by insurgents in a hoax hostage video). (theseenjournal.org)