History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman

  • : 2021
  • : 16
  • : 16
  • History
  • 22
  • Crime Documentary

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2x1
Fleeing Parchman
Episode overview
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.
2x2
Vietnam POW Escape
Episode overview
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.
2x3
San Quentin Breakout
Episode overview
05, 2024
A lifelong escape artist, Forrest Tucker, ends up in San Quentin prison; despite his advanced age, he manages to engineer one of the most audacious prison breaks of all time.
2x4
The Sobibor Revolt
Episode overview
19, 2024
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 .. show full overview
2x5
Escaping Devil's Island
Episode overview
26, 2024
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 .. show full overview
2x6
Alton City Escape
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02, 2024
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 .. show full overview
2x7
Tunneling to Freedom
Episode overview
09, 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 .. show full overview
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Breakout in Plain Sight
Episode overview
16, 2024
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 .. show full overview