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History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman - Season 2

Series: History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman
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Episodes
8
Rating
TV14
Year
2024
Language
English
Publisher
History

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In History's Greatest 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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Episodes

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1. Fleeing Parchman

43m

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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

43m

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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

43m

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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

43m

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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

43m

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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

43m

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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.

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Morgan Freemanactor