"Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper 1981" is a movie-for-television based on the true story of the six Americans who, having fled from the beseiged United States Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979, as their fellow diplomats were being taken hostage, later escaped from the country with the aid of the Canadian Embassy. The story later was made to a movie again (Argo, 2012) but this one is the earlier version of the same story made into a movie in 1981, and broadcasted on the CBS Television Network.