History's Greatest Escapes With Morgan Freeman
History's Greatest Escapes With Morgan Freeman
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S1 E5: Escaping Hitler
On Demand • Original Air Date: Dec 7, 2021
The story of the escape of more than 70 men from Stalag Luft III, a German prisoner of war camp; only three eventually survived.
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S2 E8: Breakout in Plain Sight
On Demand • Original Air Date: Sep 16, 2024
An Iranian-American psychopath goes to the men's city jail in Orange County Jail in Southern California; before he gets sent to a higher security prison, he escapes by crawling up the plumbing chase and rappelling down the side of the prison.
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S2 E7: Tunneling to Freedom
On Demand • Original Air Date: Sep 9, 2024
During the Civil War, a daring prison break frees hundreds of captured Union soldiers; Colonel Thomas Rose was a schoolteacher before the Civil War; when he was captured and sent to Libby Prison in Richmond Virginia, he engineers a mass escape.
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S2 E6: Alton City Escape
On Demand • Original Air Date: Sep 2, 2024
Quawntay Adams, a young African American man from Los Angeles gets caught up in a large-scale marijuana bust and is sentenced to a long prison term; when he finds out he is going to be a father, he determines to break out of his cell.
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S2 E5: Escaping Devil's Island
On Demand • Original Air Date: Aug 26, 2024
Petty thief Rene Belbenoit is captured and sentenced to hard time at France's notorious penal colony in French Guiana; he is determined to escape or die trying, and his story becomes the basis of several popular movies in Hollywood.
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S2 E4: The Sobibor Revolt
On Demand • Original Air Date: Aug 19, 2024
During World War II, the Nazi war machine creates specialized death camps; at Sobibor, in Poland, a small group of Jews engineer a mass escape and help bring the story of the Holocaust to the rest of the world.
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S2 E3: San Quentin Breakout
On Demand • Original Air Date: Aug 5, 2024
A lifelong escape artist, Forrest Tucker, ends up in San Quentin prison; despite his advanced age, he manages to engineer an audacious prison break.
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S2 E2: Vietnam POW Escape
On Demand • Original Air Date: Jul 29, 2024
A German American pilot, Dieter Dengler, uses survival skills honed as a child to escape a secret prison in Laos during the early years of the Vietnam War.
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S2 E1: Fleeing Parchman
On Demand • Original Air Date: Jul 22, 2024
A lone wolf prisoner, with aspirations of writing crime novels, ends up the star of his own break-out story when he figures out how to escape from one of Mississippi's oldest and most notorious prison farms, Parchman Penitentiary.
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