History's Greatest Escapes With Morgan Freeman

History's Greatest Escapes With Morgan Freeman

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S1 E4: Conquering the Wall

On Demand • Original Air Date: Nov 30, 2021

Six men, led by the mastermind, Nuno Pontes, escaped Pittsburgh State Penitentiary by tunneling to freedom under the prison wall; they made it as far as Texas before being caught and returned to prison.

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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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