Famous jailbreaks are the stuff of legend as their true stories are often untold. Now, with dramatic recreations, escapes from prisons like Alcatraz will come to life.
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.
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.
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.
During WWII, the Nazi war machine created specialized camps that were only used for one purpose, killing prisoners. At Sobibor, a group of Jews that were forced to keep the camp operational, engineered a mass escape that saved many of their lives.
Rene Belbenoit is sentenced to hard time at France's notorious penal colony in French Guiana. He determines to escape or die trying. After numerous harrowing escapes, he finally gets free. His story becomes the basis of several movies in Hollywood.
Quawntay Adams, a young African American man from a South-Central Los Angeles, gets caught up in a large-scale marijuana bust. When he finds out he is going to be a father, he determines to break out of his maximum-security cell which he does.
During the Civil War, a prison break frees hundreds of 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 engineered one of the greatest mass escapes.
An Iranian-American psychopath is thrown into the men's city jail in Orange County Jail in Southern California. Before he gets sent to a higher security prison, he escapes the five-story prison.