History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman explores real-life prison breaks that have captured the attention of the public, showcasing an up close and personal view of what the prisoners are faced with in executing their break outs.
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Devious Minds Try to Find a Way Out
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1.Alcatraz
8.509-11-202143mFour 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 re...
2.North Country Breakout
8.016-11-202143mStuck in prison on life sentences, two men used engineering smarts and psychological manipulation of several prison employees to escape Dannemora Prison; Richard Matt and David Swe...
3.El Chapo
9.023-11-202143mEl 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 le...
4.Conquering the Wall
30-11-202143mSix 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...
5.Escaping Hitler
07-12-202143mAllied 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...
6.Belfast Breakout
14-12-202143mAlmost 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 we...
7.Fleeing Hellmira
21-12-202143mTimothy Vail and Timothy Morgan were murderers incarcerated at Elmira State Prison in Elmira, N.Y.;. Vail wanted to escape, so he engaged Morgan in his plan to dig through the ceil...
8.Assassin's Flight
28-12-202143mJames Earl Ray, confessed killer of MLK, was a notorious escape artist. His most audacious escape involved manufacturing a ladder made of plumbing pipe and going over the wall of t...
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