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Season 2 – History's Greatest Escapes With Morgan Freeman

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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; Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman, who starred in "Shawshank Redemption," a film focusing on the exploits of a group of inmates inside the fictional Shawshank State Penitentiary, hosts and executive produces the series; conversations with some of the prisoners, their families, their cellmates, guards and prison employees are used to round out the potrayals of famous escapes from Alcatraz, Dannemora, Pittsburgh State Penitentiary and other locations.
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History's Greatest Escapes With Morgan Freeman — Season 2

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Morgan Freeman

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Morgan Freeman

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Episode 1 Aired Jul 22, 2024 Fleeing Parchman 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 Mississippi's oldest and most notorious prison farms, Parchman Penitentiary. Details Episode 2 Aired Jul 29, 2024 Vietnam POW Escape 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. Details Episode 3 Aired Aug 5, 2024 San Quentin Breakout A lifelong escape artist, Forrest Tucker, ends up in San Quentin prison; despite his advanced age, he manages to engineer an audacious prison break. Details Episode 4 Aired Aug 19, 2024 The Sobibor Revolt During World War II, the Nazi war machine creates specialized death camps; at Sobibor, in Poland, a small group of Jews engineer a mass escape and help bring the story of the Holocaust to the rest of the world. Details Episode 5 Aired Aug 26, 2024 Escaping Devil's Island Petty thief Rene Belbenoit is captured and sentenced to hard time at France's notorious penal colony in French Guiana; he is determined to escape or die trying, and his story becomes the basis of several popular movies in Hollywood. Details Episode 6 Aired Sep 2, 2024 Alton City Escape 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. Details Episode 7 Aired Sep 9, 2024 Tunneling to Freedom 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. Details Episode 8 Aired Sep 16, 2024 Breakout in Plain Sight An Iranian-American psychopath goes to the men's 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. Details

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History's Greatest Escapes With Morgan Freeman — Season 2

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Season Info

Executive Producer
Morgan Freeman
Network
History
Genre
Documentary, Crime
Original Language
English
Release Date
Jul 22, 2024