WWII's Great Escapes: The Freedom Trails
Former marine Monty Halls retraces the routes of great escapes from Nazi territory, meeting surviving escapees and locals who risked their lives to help them.
- 2017-2017
- 1 season
- Documentary
Former marine Monty Halls retraces the routes of great escapes from Nazi territory, meeting surviving escapees and locals who risked their lives to help them.
Season 1 Episode Guide
4 Episodes 2017
Episode 1
Slovenia: the crow's flight
50 mins
Monty treks through the forests and mountains of slovenia, as he learns the dramatic story of the most successful mass escape of allied prisoners in world war ii.
Episode 2
Italy: the sulmona trail
Monty follows in the footsteps of Len Harley, who escaped from the Nazis across Italy's Majella mountains in winter, and reunites Len - who's now 98 - with Rosina Spinosa, who helped him escape.
Episode 3
Italy: operation galia
Monty recounts the story of a daring sas mission behind enemy lines in northern italy, and retraces the troops' dramatic escape route across the apuan alps.
Episode 4
France and spain: the pyrenees
Monty retraces one of the toughest freedom trail routes in europe, across the pyrenees from france to spain, and meets soldiers who survived it and people who risked their lives to help them.