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.
A lifelong escape artist, Forrest Tucker, ends up in San Quentin prison; despite his advanced age, he manages to engineer an audacious prison break.
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.
Petty thief Rene Belbenoit is captured and sentenced to hard time at France's notorious penal colony in French Guiana; he is determined to escape or die trying, and his story becomes the basis of several popular movies in Hollywood.
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.
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.
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.
Stuck in prison on life sentences, two men used engineering smarts and psychological manipulation of several prison employees to escape Dannemora Prison; Richard Matt and David Sweat executed one of the most involved escapes from an American prison.
The most notorious and murderous drug cartel kingpins in modern history.
Six men, led by the mastermind, Nuno Pontes, escaped Pittsburgh State Penitentiary by tunneling to freedom under the prison wall; they made it as far as Texas before being caught and returned to prison.
The story of the escape of more than 70 men from Stalag Luft Three, a German prisoner of war camp; only three eventually survived.
HM Maze prison was a notorious lock up for IRA prisoners in Northern Ireland; a small ring of IRA prisoners secretly planned what they hoped would be a massive prison break.
Timothy Vail and Timothy Morgan are murderers incarcerated at Elmira State Prison in Elmira, N.Y.; Vail wants to escape, so he engages Morgan in his plan to dig through the ceiling and flee from prison.
Looking at the many prison escapes of James Earl Ray, who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr., including his escape from Brushy Mountain State Prison, Tennessee.