Real Prison Breaks
The series features exclusive interviews with escapees combined with interviews and insight from the professionals that have hunted, guarded and are constantly trying to figure out what makes these criminals tick.
Episode 1
A love-struck girlfriend hijacks a helicopter to pluck her man from jail and one of the world's biggest breakouts: 38 inmates in one go!
Episode 2
A female warder falls in love with a felon and springs him from jail, and an escaped murderer on the run cons a cop into letting him go.
Episode 3
A prison nurse kills a guard to spring her inmate lover from jail plus great train robber Ronnie Bigg's daring escape and 10,000 days on the run.
Episode 4
The biggest death-row break out in U.S history and the world's first helicopter escape.
Episode 5
The Alcatraz escape they didn't want you to know about and a modern-day Count of Monte Christo breaks out of Monaco's 17th-century prison.
Episode 6
Escape by a rope made of dental floss and the last man hanged in Australia: the break out that sealed his fate.
Episode 7
In Britain, IRA terrorists are re-captured after just minutes on the run and in Australia, an inmate loses half his body weight and slips through his cell bar window to freedom.
Episode 8
In the UK, a sociopath bomber uses a hand-made key to open a door to freedom.
Episode 9
In Australia an escapee sends photos of himself while on the run to authorities he’s dubbed the postcard bandit and in the US, six vicious murderers tunnel their way to freedom.
Episode 10
In the UK John McVicar gets away with one of the most brazen escapes in British history, in New York State a small-time criminal on the run turns into a cop killer.
