Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman

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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  1. S2 E2 - The Sobibor Revolt
    September 15, 2024
    43min
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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.
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  2. S2 E3 - San Quentin Breakout
    September 8, 2024
    43min
    7+
    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.
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  3. S2 E4 - Vietnam POW Escape
    September 1, 2024
    43min
    7+
    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.
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  4. S2 E6 - Fleeing Parchman
    August 25, 2024
    43min
    7+
    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.
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  5. S2 E8 - Escaping Devil's Island
    September 22, 2024
    43min
    7+
    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.
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