Pablo Escobar - Escape from La Catedral
In July 1992, long shadows formed as the sun set over Medellin, the Colombian city nestled in the Aburra Valley. Perched against one of the steep hills overlooking the city sat the La Catedral Prison,...
15 Syys 20191h 8min
The Libby Prison Break
In February 1864, a group of Union soldiers escaped from Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia. Filthy and starving, the prisoners had set about finding a way out of Libby – which had become an overcrowd...
31 Elo 20191h 10min
Escape From The Maze - Part II
On Sunday, September 25th, 1983, the day started as normal in H-block 7, with the prison officers having no indication of what the prisoners had in store. Brendan McFarlane, on the other hand, began t...
16 Elo 201955min
Escape From the Maze
In September 1983, the Irish Republican Army planned and executed a mass escape from Her Majesty's Maze Prison in Northern Ireland. 38 prisoners made it beyond the walls of the Maze, which the UK gove...
2 Elo 20191h
Darcy Dugan - Australia's Houdini
Darcy Dugan felt no remorse for trying to get out. When you cage an animal against its will, deprive it of its natural element and kin, it will naturally try to escape – particularly if it can see a w...
19 Heinä 20191h 20min
William Hayes and the Midnight Express
Billy lay on the old, stained mattress that sat atop the steel frame bolted to the floor. He'd been imprisoned in a Turkish jail cell since October 1970, charged with drug possession. Although he had ...
22 Kesä 20191h 4min
The Escape of Henry Brown
It was March, 1849. Henry Brown, a slave working in a tobacco factory in Richmond, Virginia, was 33 years old. He had it better than most other slaves it was true, but he was still a slave all the sam...
7 Kesä 20191h 2min
