History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
Episode 1 - Fleeing ParchmanA lone wolf prisoner, with aspirations to writing crime novels, ends up the star of his own break out story when he figures out to escape from one of Mississippi's oldest and most notorious prison farms, Parchman Penitentiary.
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Episode 2 - Vietnam Pow EscapeA German American pilot, Dieter Dengler, uses survival skills honed as a child to escape a secret prison in Laos in the early years of the Vietnam war.
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Episode 3 - San Quentin BreakoutA lifelong escape artist, Forrest Tucker, ends up in San Quentin prison. But despite his advanced age, he manages to engineer one of the most audacious prison breaks of all time.
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Episode 4 - The Sobibor RevoltDuring 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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Episode 5 - Escaping Devil's IslandRene 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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Episode 6 - Alton City EscapeQuawntay 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 determines to break out of his maximum-security cell--which he does.
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