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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.
S2, EP1 "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.
S2, EP2 "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.
S2, EP3 "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.
S2, EP4 "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.
