History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman
Prisons are designed to keep the bad guys on the inside. But for some captive geniuses, those prison walls are just another crime waiting to happen. Some of the greatest stories ever told start behind bars. Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman takes you through the most notorious prison breaks, every suspenseful moment of their escapes. Even the best laid plans can go wrong.
- 2021-2024
- 2 seasons
- History Channel
- Suspense
- TV-PG
Prisons are designed to keep the bad guys on the inside. But for some captive geniuses, those prison walls are just another crime waiting to happen. Some of the greatest stories ever told start behind bars. Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman takes you through the most notorious prison breaks, every suspenseful moment of their escapes. Even the best laid plans can go wrong.
Season 2 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2024
Episode 1
Fleeing Parchman
Mon, Jul 22, 2024
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.
Episode 2
Vietnam POW Escape
Mon, Jul 29, 2024
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.
Episode 3
San Quentin Breakout
Mon, Aug 5, 2024
A lifelong escape artist, Forrest Tucker, ends up in San Quentin prison; despite his advanced age, he manages to engineer one of the most audacious prison breaks of all time.
Episode 4
The Sobibor Revolt
Mon, Aug 19, 2024
During World War II, the Nazi war machine creates specialized called 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.
Episode 5
Escaping Devil's Island
Mon, Aug 26, 2024
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.
Episode 6
Alton City Escape
Mon, Sep 2, 2024
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.
Episode 7
Tunnelling to Freedom
Mon, Sep 9, 2024
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.
Episode 8
Breakout in Plain Sight
Mon, Sep 16, 2024
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.