The BEST episodes of History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman
Every episode of History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman!
Take a look back at the biggest jailbreaks from some of the most notorious prisons in the world.
#5 - El Chapo
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/23/2021
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.
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#10 - Tunneling to Freedom
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/9/2024
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 engineered one of the greatest mass escapes in history.
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#11 - Fleeing Parchman
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/22/2024
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.
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#12 - Escaping Devil's Island
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/26/2024
Rene Belbenoit, a petty thief is captured and sentenced to hard time at France's notorious penal colony in French Guiana. He determines to escape or die trying. After many years and numerous harrowing escapes--he finally gets free. His story becomes the basis of several popular movies in Hollywood.
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#13 - The Sobibor Revolt
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/19/2024
During World War II, the Nazi war machine created specialized camps that were only used for one purpose, killing prisoners. Mainly Jews. They were called Death Camps. At Sobibor, in Poland, a small group of Jews that were forced to keep the camp operational for killing, engineered a daring mass escape that saved many of their lives. And helped bring the story of the holocaust to the rest of the world.
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#14 - Alton City Escape
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/2/2024
Quawntay Adams, a young African American man from a South-Central 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 is determined to break out of his maximum-security cell--which he does.
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#16 - Breakout in Plain Sight
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/16/2024
An Iranian American psychopath is thrown into 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 five-story prison. It's a group effort but Hossein Nayeri, the mastermind, does not play well with others and the escapees turn on each other--and get caught.
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