History's Greatest Escapes With Morgan Freeman

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.

Four men conspire to break out of one of the most notorious prisons in American history.

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.

Allied prisoners used all kinds of forgery and engineering 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.

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.

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.

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.

Almost forty 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.

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.

Two desperate murderers made an audacious rooftop escape from the forty foot high Elmira State Prison.

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.

Stuck in prison on life sentences, two men used engineering smarts and psychological manipulation of several prison employees to escape Dannemora Prison.

An Iranian-American psychopath is sent to the Orange County Central Men's Jail 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.

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, VA, he engineers a mass escape.