Great Escapes With..., Fleeing Parchman

S2 E1 • 41m • HDU

A prisoner with a love of crime novels becomes the star of his own story when he escapes from Mississippi's notorious Parchman Penitentiary.

S2 E2 • 41m • HDU

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 E3 • 40m • HDU

A lifelong escape artist, Forrest Tucker, ends up in San Quentin prison - but despite his advanced age, he manages to engineer an audacious prison break.

During World War II, the Nazi war machine creates specialised death camps. At Sobibor, Poland, a small number of Jews engineer a mass escape.

S2 E5 • 40m • HDU

Petty thief Rene Belbenoit is sentenced to time at France's notorious penal colony in French Guiana - but he is determined to escape or die trying.

S2 E6 • 41m • HDU

Quawntay Adams gets caught up in a marijuana bust and is sentenced to prison - but when he learns he is going to be a father, he determines to escape.

A daring prison break, engineered by former teacher Colonel Thomas Rose, frees hundreds of captured Union soldiers during the Civil War.

S2 E8 • 40m • HDU

An Iranian-American psychopath goes to jail in Southern California, but escapes before he can be transferred to a higher security prison.