Will this criminal’s [Rene Belbenoit] street smart be enough to conquer nature? Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman s2e5: Escaping Devil’s Island
This is a cell in one of the most frightening prison camps in history. Located in French Guiana on the South American coast, it’s the notorious prison colony known as Ile du Diable, Devil’s Island. ibid.
Of the thousands who try to escape Devil’s Island, only a handful succeed. ibid.
It may look like an innocuous building in a typical American suburb but Alton City Jail is one of the most high-tech facilities on American soil. Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman s2e6: Alton City Escape
Prisoners are confined to their cells at all times. ibid.
Quawntay [Adams] devises an ingenious way to smuggle in a blade: the US postal service. ibid.
The manhunt for Quawntay Adams is on. ibid.
In a deadly prison deep behind enemy lines. One man [Colonel Thomas Rose] leads the biggest escape attempt in American history? Can they break out and make it back to enemy territory alive? Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman s2e7: Tunneling to Freedom
An estimated 620,000 men would lose their lives fighting the civil war. ibid.
Welcome to Libby Prison. Known to its inhabitants as the Castle of Despair. ibid.
109 prisoners make it through the tunnel that night … 59 make it back to friendly territory. ibid.
At maximum security jails prisoners are packed into overcrowded cells. It’s a recipe for violence. Facing years in this hellish prison, three inmates plan a high-risk escape. If their plan fails and the rope breaks, they will pay a heavy price. Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman s2e8: Breakout in Plain Sight
250 officers were assigned on jail-break duty … 3 people have escaped from prison. ibid.
This is the story of how to get out of Broadmoor … Breakouts from Broadmoor are incredibly rare. But not impossible. Broadmoor: For the Criminally Insane s1e4
1991: One of Broadmoor’s most dangerous and depraved patients managed to escape … He was convicted child rapist John Saunders. ibid.
‘1993: The Wolfman [Saunders] decides to escape again.’ ibid.
Every release from Broodmoor hospital has its risks. ibid.
Iran, 1979: The worst hostage crisis in American history. Unknown to the world at the time, US embassy staff escape and find their way to the house of Canadian diplomats where they spend 85 days in hiding. CIA Declassified s1e7: Argo: The Secret Story
An extraordinary plan: to walk the diplomats out of Iran in broad daylight posing as a Hollywood film crew. The CIA now pushes its tradecraft to the limit as they set out to disguise and train six ordinary Americans in the art of escape. This is the real-life story of what would later become an Oscar-winning Hollywood sensation. ibid.
In late 1979 thousands of anti-American protesters in Iran are gathering outside the US embassy. Demonstrations against America are common. Iran is still in the throes of an Islamic revolution. ibid.
66 Americans are now being held hostage at gunpoint. At this stage the CIA have no idea that there’s a group of diplomats on the run. ibid.
The State Department is consumed by the ever worsening hostage crisis … The State Department turns to the CIA.
The Flash cables are about the escaped diplomats. ibid.
The Date for exfiltration: January 25th 1980. ibid.