History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman - Season 2

History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman - Season 2

Season 2

In the new season of History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman, Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman explores real life prison breaks that captured the attention of the public as well as the authorities that tried to prevent them. Famous escapes at Devil's Island, during the Vietnam War, and at Sobibor Death Camp during WWII, as well as other prison locations, are recreated to place Freeman at the site of the action. The series creates an up-close-and-personal view of what the prisoners are faced with in executing their break outs along with interviews from some of the prisoners themselves, their families, their cell mates and the guards and prison employees involved in each case.

Network
Datesjuil. 22, 2024 - sept. 16, 2024
Previous Season

Episodes

Fleeing Parchman
Season 2Episode 160 min

Fleeing Parchman

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, Parchman Penitentiary.

juil. 22, 2024
Vietnam POW Escape
Season 2Episode 263 min

Vietnam POW Escape

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.

juil. 29, 2024
San Quentin Breakout
Season 2Episode 363 min

San Quentin Breakout

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.

août 5, 2024
The Sobibor Revolt
Season 2Episode 463 min

The Sobibor Revolt

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. At Sobibor, in Poland, a small group of Jews that were forced to keep the camp operational for killing, engineered a daring mass escape that saved many of their lives. And helped bring the story of the holocaust to the rest of the world.

août 19, 2024
Escaping Devil's Island
Season 2Episode 563 min

Escaping Devil's Island

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. After many years and numerous harrowing escapes--he finally gets free. His story becomes the basis of several popular movies in Hollywood.

août 26, 2024
Alton City Escape
Season 2Episode 663 min

Alton City Escape

Quawntay Adams, a young African American man from a South-Central 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 maximum-security cell--which he does.

sept. 2, 2024
Tunneling to Freedom
Season 2Episode 763 min

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 engineered one of the greatest mass escapes in history.

sept. 9, 2024
Breakout in Plain Sight
Season 2Episode 863 min

Breakout in Plain Sight

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 by crawling up the plumbing chase and rappelling down the side of the five-story prison. It's a group effort but Hossein Nayeri, the mastermind, does not play well with others and the escapees turn on each other--and get caught.

sept. 16, 2024

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