Banged Up Abroad (2007)

  • Premiered: Jul 2007
  • Episodes: 171
  • Followers: 23
  • Running
  • National Geographic (UK)
  • Wednesday
  • Documentary Drama Travel

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Season 8
8x1
My Dad the Smuggler
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Jul 02, 2012
Scott Campbell goes travelling in China with his estranged father, only to find out that his dad is a professional smuggler carrying 20 kilos of cannabis.
8x2
I Am Not a Terrorist
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Jul 09, 2012
Duane Wollum is about to make some easy money smuggling cocaine, until an airport security check reveals that he is concealing a package.
8x3
Hasidic King of Coke
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Jul 16, 2012
Orthodox Jew Samuel Leibowitz dreams of making millions as a drug kingpin in Brazil, leading to a terrifying term in the deadly Carandiru Penitentiary.
8x4
Not Without My Baby
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Jul 23, 2012
When Susan's Haglof's adoption goes wrong, she ends up in an Egyptian jail, facing a charge of human trafficking.
8x5
Chilean Prison Break
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Jul 30, 2012
The gripping story of Tom Hanway, who flees a Chilean prison with a fellow prisoner, taking a dangerous and fatal escape route across the desert.
8x6
The Orchid Hunters
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Aug 06, 2012
The shocking story of Tom Hart Dyke and Paul Winder, two British backpackers who are ambushed and held for ransom by a guerilla group while crossing the notoriously dangerous Darien Gap.
8x7
Venezuela Hustle
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Aug 13, 2012
Desperate to keep his family afloat, Paul Keany agrees to smuggle six kilos of cocaine from Venezuela back to Dublin, but it turns out to be the worst decision of his life.
8x8
Busted in Bangkok
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Aug 27, 2012
Thrown into a notorious Bangkok prison for attempting to smuggle heroin, Angela Carnegie has an epiphany while nursing a fellow inmate with a drug addiction.
8x9
Nightmare in Somalia
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Nov 28, 2012
The terrifying story of photojournalist Nigel Brennan and reporter Amanda Lindhout, who are held hostage for 15 months by a criminal gang in Somalia.
8x10
Escape From the Gulag
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Dec 12, 2012
It's 1976 in Cold War Moscow, and American Jerry Amster finds himself in the worst situation possible: busted for smuggling drugs from Kuala Lumpur to Russia.
8x1
Sold My Soul
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Nov 15, 2015
Michael Morey agreed to smuggle cocaine from Ecuador to Europe after learning his girlfriend is pregnant.
8x2
The Cuban Layover
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Nov 29, 2015
Music producer Roy forces Kahlilah Saleem to smuggle drugs so she can see her daughter again.
8x3
We're the Kings
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Dec 06, 2015
Nightclub promoter Brendan Cosso gets busted in Brazil trying to take a package to Hungary, and serves four years in one of the most violent prisons in South America.
8x4
Human Shields In Iraq
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Dec 13, 2015
Tom Lynch and other contractors tried to escape Kuwait after the Iraqi invasion, but they were caught and taken to a notorious Baghdad prison.
8x5
I Was The Enemy
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Dec 20, 2015
In 2004, reporters Scott Taylor and Zeynep Tugrul rush to the front line in Iraq, but both are captured by insurgents who are convinced the two are U.S. spies.
8x7
Gadaffi's American Prisoner
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Aug 14, 2016
Captured by Qaddafi's men while fighting with rebels in Libya, Baltimore-born Matthew VanDyke spent nearly six months in solitary confinement.
8x8
What I Did For Love
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Aug 23, 2016
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8x9
Masters Of Disguise
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Sep 06, 2017
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8x10
Bad Business
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Sep 13, 2017
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