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Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2021 - 0
Episode 1
Alcatraz
Tue, Nov 9, 2021 60 mins
Four men conspire to break out of one of the most notorious prisons in American history. Three make it to the water's edge... but what happened to them when they left the island remains a mystery to this day.
Episode 2
North Country Breakout
Tue, Nov 16, 2021 60 mins
Stuck in prison on life sentences, two men used engineering smarts and psychological manipulation of several prison employees to escape Dannemora Prison.
Episode 3
El Chapo
Tue, Nov 23, 2021 43 mins
El Chapo became one of the most notorious and murderous drug cartel kingpins in modern history. His audacious escapes from maximum-security prisons in Mexico became the stuff of legends. He is now in a US supermax prison in Colorado where he is remanded to this day.
Episode 4
Conquering the Wall
Tue, Nov 30, 2021 43 mins
Six men, led by the mastermind, Nuno Pontes, escaped Pittsburgh State Penitentiary by tunneling to freedom under the massive wall of the prison. They made it as far as Texas before being caught and returned to prison.
Episode 5
Escaping Hitler
Tue, Dec 7, 2021 60 mins
Allied prisoners used all kinds of tactics to tunnel out of a German Prisoner of War camp. Almost all were caught, fifty were executed and three made their way to freedom.
Episode 6
Belfast Breakout
Tue, Dec 14, 2021 43 mins
Prisoners, locked up in HM Maze prison for actions undertaken as members of the IRA, escaped in a food truck. Many were caught right away, some years later, and some were never seen again.
Episode 7
Fleeing Hellmira
Tue, Dec 21, 2021 43 mins
Timothy Vail and Timothy Morgan were murderers incarcerated at Elmira State Prison in Elmira, N.Y.;. Vail wanted to escape, so he engaged Morgan in his plan to dig through the ceiling and flee from prison.
Episode 8
Assassin's Flight
Tue, Dec 28, 2021 43 mins
Spotlighting James Earl Ray, confessed killer of MLK and a notorious escape artist. His most audacious escape involved manufacturing a ladder made of plumbing pipe and going over the wall of the Brushy Mountain State Prison.