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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.

History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman

Breakout in Plain Sight

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.

Tunneling to Freedom

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.

Alton City Escape

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.

Escaping Devil's Island

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.

The Sobibor Revolt

A lifelong escape artist, Forrest Tucker, ends up in San Quentin prison; despite his advanced age, he manages to engineer an audacious prison break.

San Quentin Breakout

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.

Vietnam POW Escape

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.

Fleeing Parchman

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Interviews and re-creations bring some of history's most daring jailbreaks to life, detailing every step of the way, including the inmates' meticulous plans and the manhunts that followed.

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