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Breakout in Plain Sight |
17th Sep 2024 |
2 months ago |
01:00 - 02:00 |
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Season 2, Episode 8 - "Breakout in Plain Sight"
An Iranian American psychopath is thrown into 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 five-story prison. It's a group effort but Hossein Nayeri, the mastermind, does not play well with others and the escapees turn on each other--and get caught.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#7 |
Tunneling to Freedom |
10th Sep 2024 |
2 months ago |
01:00 - 02:00 |
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Season 2, Episode 7 - "Tunneling to Freedom"
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 engineered one of the greatest mass escapes in history.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#6 |
Alton City Escape |
3rd Sep 2024 |
2 months ago |
01:00 - 02:00 |
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Season 2, Episode 6 - "Alton City Escape"
Quawntay Adams, a young African American man from a South-Central 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 maximum-security cell--which he does.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#5 |
Escaping Devil's Island |
27th Aug 2024 |
2 months ago |
01:00 - 02:00 |
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Season 2, Episode 5 - "Escaping Devil's Island"
Rene Belbenoit, a petty thief is captured and sentenced to hard time at France's notorious penal colony in French Guiana. He determines to escape or die trying. After many years and numerous harrowing escapes--he finally gets free. His story becomes the basis of several popular movies in Hollywood.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#4 |
The Sobibor Revolt |
20th Aug 2024 |
3 months ago |
01:00 - 02:00 |
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Season 2, Episode 4 - "The Sobibor Revolt"
During World War II, the Nazi war machine created specialized camps that were only used for one purpose, killing prisoners. Mainly Jews. They were called Death Camps. At Sobibor, in Poland, a small group of Jews that were forced to keep the camp operational for killing, engineered a daring mass escape that saved many of their lives. And helped bring the story of the holocaust to the rest of the world.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#3 |
San Quentin Breakout |
6th Aug 2024 |
3 months ago |
01:00 - 02:00 |
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Season 2, Episode 3 - "San Quentin Breakout"
A lifelong escape artist, Forrest Tucker, ends up in San Quentin prison. But despite his advanced age, he manages to engineer one of the most audacious prison breaks of all time.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#2 |
Vietnam POW Escape |
30th Jul 2024 |
3 months ago |
01:00 - 02:00 |
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Season 2, Episode 2 - "Vietnam POW Escape"
A German American pilot, Dieter Dengler, uses survival skills honed as a child to escape a secret prison in Laos in the early years of the Vietnam war.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#1 |
Fleeing Parchman |
23rd Jul 2024 |
3 months ago |
01:00 - 02:00 |
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Season 2, Episode 1 - "Fleeing Parchman"
A lone wolf prisoner, with aspirations to writing crime novels, ends up the star of his own break out story when he figures out to escape from one of Mississippi's oldest and most notorious prison farms, Parchman Penitentiary.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#8 |
Assassin's Flight |
29th Dec 2021 |
2 years ago |
03:03 - 04:03 |
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Season 1, Episode 8 - "Assassin's Flight"
James Earl Ray, confessed killer of RFK, was a notorious escape artist. His most audacious escape involved manufacturing a ladder made of plumbing pipe and going over the wall of the Brushy Mountain State Prison.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#7 |
Fleeing Hellmira |
22nd Dec 2021 |
2 years ago |
03:03 - 04:03 |
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Season 1, Episode 7 - "Fleeing Hellmira"
Two desperate murderers made an audacious rooftop escape from the forty foot high Elmira State Prison.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#6 |
Belfast Breakout |
15th Dec 2021 |
2 years ago |
03:03 - 04:03 |
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Season 1, Episode 6 - "Belfast Breakout"
Almost forty prisoners locked up in HM Maze prison for actions undertaken as members of the IRA, escaped in a food truck. Many were caught right away, some years later, and some were never seen again.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#5 |
Escaping Hitler |
8th Dec 2021 |
2 years ago |
03:03 - 04:03 |
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Season 1, Episode 5 - "Escaping Hitler"
Allied prisoners used all kinds of forgery and engineering tactics to tunnel out of a German Prisoner of War camp. Almost all were caught, fifty were executed and three made their way to freedom.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#4 |
Conquering the Wall |
1st Dec 2021 |
2 years ago |
03:03 - 04:03 |
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Season 1, Episode 4 - "Conquering the Wall"
Six men, led by the mastermind, Nuno Pontes, escaped Pittsburgh State Penitentiary by tunneling to freedom under the massive wall of the prison. They made it as far as Texas before being caught and returned to prison.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#3 |
El Chapo |
24th Nov 2021 |
2 years ago |
03:03 - 04:03 |
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Season 1, Episode 3 - "El Chapo"
El Chapo became one of the most notorious and murderous drug cartel kingpins in modern history. His audacious escapes from maximum-security prisons in Mexico became the stuff of legends. He is now in a US supermax prison in Colorado where he is remanded to this day.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#2 |
North Country Breakout |
17th Nov 2021 |
3 years ago |
03:03 - 04:03 |
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Season 1, Episode 2 - "North Country Breakout"
Stuck in prison on life sentences, two men used engineering smarts and psychological manipulation of several prison employees to escape Dannemora Prison.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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#1 |
Alcatraz |
10th Nov 2021 |
3 years ago |
03:03 - 04:03 |
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Season 1, Episode 1 - "Alcatraz"
Four men conspire to break out of one of the most notorious prisons in American history. Three make it to the water's edge... but what happened to them when they left the island remains a mystery to this day.
Type: Documentary |
Network: History |
Status: Running |
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