Real Prison Breaks

Documentary · 2008 · 1 SeasonSubtitles Icon
TV-14
Get the inside scoop on actual prison breaks that have occurred throughout the United Kingdom, America, Australia, and New Zealand.
S01:E01 - Episode 1
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S01:E01 - Episode 1

48 min
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Australian woman, Lucy Dudko is so besotted with her jailbird boyfriend she hijacks a helicopter, plucks him from the prison pen and flies him to freedom.

S01:E02 - Episode 2
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S01:E02 - Episode 2

49 min
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An Australian female warder falls in love with aprisoner and helps spring him from jail.

S01:E03 - Episode 3
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S01:E03 - Episode 3

48 min
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A Tennesse prison nurse married with three children falls in love with a felon. In the act of springing him from jail she shoots and kills a guard.

S01:E04 - Episode 4
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S01:E04 - Episode 4

48 min
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Facing the electric chair, six desperate felons on Virginia's death row overpower their guards and break out.

S01:E05 - Episode 5
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S01:E05 - Episode 5

48 min
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The Alacatraz escape they didn't want you know about and a modern day Count of Monte Christo breaks out of Monaco's 17th century prison.

S01:E06 - Episode 6
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S01:E06 - Episode 6

48 min
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Escape by a rope made of dental floss and the last man hanged in Australia: the break out that sealed his fate

S01:E07 - Episode 7
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S01:E07 - Episode 7

48 min
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In the US the Texas seven overpower unsuspecting maintenance workers, steal their uniforms and ID and drive out of the prison.

S01:E08 - Episode 8
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S01:E08 - Episode 8

48 min
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On the Isle of Wight, off the southern coast of Britain, maximum security Parkhurst Prison is considered escape proof.

S01:E09 - Episode 9
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S01:E09 - Episode 9

48 min
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Vicious gunman John Kendall and murderer Sydney Draper become the first British criminals to use a helicopter to escape maximum security when they fly out of Gartree prison.

S01:E10 - Episode 10
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S01:E10 - Episode 10

49 min
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Former criminal John McVicar is a well known British journalist and the subject of a hit movie, but once he was public enemy number one after breaking out of prison in the north of England.

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