History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman

History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman

  • 2021
  • 2 Seasons
  • 16 Episodes
  •  5.6  (9)
  •   Ended

Morgan Freeman explores real-life prison breaks that have captured the attention of the public, showcasing an up close and personal view of what the prisoners are faced with in executing their break outs.

History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman
Seasons
Breakout in Plain Sight
8. Breakout in Plain Sight
September 16, 2024
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.
Tunneling to Freedom
7. Tunneling to Freedom
September 09, 2024
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.
Alton City Escape
6. Alton City Escape
September 02, 2024
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.
Escaping Devil's Island
5. Escaping Devil's Island
August 26, 2024
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.
The Sobibor Revolt
4. The Sobibor Revolt
August 19, 2024
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.
San Quentin Breakout
3. San Quentin Breakout
August 05, 2024
A lifelong escape artist, Forrest Tucker, ends up in San Quentin prison; despite his advanced age, he manages to engineer an audacious prison break.
Vietnam POW Escape
2. Vietnam POW Escape
July 29, 2024
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.
Fleeing Parchman
1. Fleeing Parchman
July 22, 2024
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.
Devious Minds Try to Find a Way Out

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Morgan Freeman explores real-life prison breaks that have captured the attention of the public, showcasing an up close and personal view of what the prisoners are faced with in executing their break outs.
  • Premiere Date
    November 09, 2021
  • Rating
    5.6  (9)