History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman

2021
5.0
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TV-14
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Season 2 episodes (8)

1 Fleeing Parchman
7/22/24
Season-only
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.
2 Vietnam POW Escape
7/29/24
Season-only
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.
3 San Quentin Breakout
8/5/24
Season-only
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.
4 The Sobibor Revolt
8/19/24
Season-only
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.
5 Escaping Devil's Island
8/26/24
Season-only
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.
6 Alton City Escape
9/2/24
Season-only
Quawntay Adams 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.
7 Tunneling To Freedom
9/9/24
Season-only
Colonel Thomas Rose was captured and sent to Libby Prison in Richmond Virginia he engineered one of the greatest mass escapes in history.
8 Breakout in Plain Sight
9/16/24
Season-only
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 prison.

About this show

In History's Greates Escapes with Morgan Freeman, Morgan will explore real-life prison breaks that have captured the attention of the public. It's an up close and personal view of what the prisoners are faced with in executing their break outs.

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5.0
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