History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman

Four men conspire to break out of one of the most notorious prisons in American history. Three make it to the water's edge... but what happened to them when they left the island?

Stuck in prison on life sentences, two men used engineering smarts and psychological manipulation of several prison employees to escape Dannemora Prison.

El Chapo became one of the most notorious and murderous drug cartel kingpins in modern history. His audacious escapes from maximum-security prisons became the stuff of legends.

Six men, led by the mastermind, Nuno Pontes, escaped Pittsburgh State Penitentiary by tunneling to freedom under the massive wall of the prison.

Allied prisoners used all kinds of forgery and engineering tactics to tunnel out of a German Prisoner of War camp.

Two desperate murderers made an audacious rooftop escape from the forty foot high Elmira State Prison.

James Earl Ray, confessed killer of MLK, was a notorious escape artist. His most audacious escape involved manufacturing a ladder made of plumbing pipe and going over a wall.