Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman

Take a look back at the biggest jailbreaks from some of the most notorious prisons in the world.

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2021 HD 43min United States English Returning Series
Crime
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Credits:

Morgan Freeman

Self - Host

S1E1 - Alcatraz 2021-11-09

Four men conspire to break out of one of the most notorious prisons in American history. Three make it to the waters edge... but what happened to them when they left the island remains a mystery to this day.

S1E2 - North Country Breakout 2021-11-16

Stuck 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 Sweat executed one of the most involved escapes from an American prison.

S1E3 - El Chapo 2021-11-23

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S1E4 - Conquering the Wall 2021-11-30

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S1E5 - Escaping Hitler 2021-12-07

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S1E6 - Belfast Breakout 2021-12-14

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S1E7 - Fleeing Hellmira 2021-12-21

Timothy 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 ceiling and flee from prison.

S1E8 - Assassin's Flight 2021-12-28

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S2E1 - Fleeing Parchman 2024-07-22

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 Mississippis oldest and most notorious prison farms, Parchman Penitentiary.

S2E2 - Vietnam POW Escape 2024-07-29

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.

S2E3 - San Quentin Breakout 2024-08-05

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

S2E4 - The Sobibor Revolt 2024-08-19

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

S2E5 - Escaping Devil's Island 2024-08-26

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

S2E6 - Alton City Escape 2024-09-02

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.

S2E7 - Tunneling to Freedom 2024-09-09

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.

S2E8 - Breakout in Plain Sight 2024-09-16

An Iranian-American psychopath goes to the mens 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.