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Real Prison Breaks
The world's most notorious escapes. A female warder falls in love with a prisoner and helps him escape, and an escaped murderer on the run in the US cons a cop into letting him go.
The world's most notorious escapes. The mass breakout by 38 prisoners from the infamous Maze prison, and the man who was picked up by a helicopter hijacked by his girlfriend.
Episodes 2012
John McVicar pulls off one of the most brazen escapes in UK history, in the US an escapee becomes a cop-killer, and in Australia a drugs importer walks out of prison in disguise.
A hi-jacked chopper is used in England's first helicopter escape, in Australia an escapee sends photos of himself to the authorities, and in the US six murderers tunnel to freedom.
In the UK, a sociopath bomber uses a hand-made key to open the door to freedom, and in Australia, an escapee is shot dead on a crowded bus while on the run from police.
Seven convicts bust out of their Texas prison and go on a murderous rampage. And in Australia, an inmate loses half his bodyweight to slip through the bars of his cell window.
The criminal who scaled a six-metre-high wall using a rope made from dental floss. And the escape and murders which sealed the fate of the last man to be hanged in Australia.
A prisoner escapes from the notorious Alcatraz jail only months before it is due to close, and a modern-day Count of Monte Cristo breaks out of Monaco's 17th-century prison.
Six felons on death row overpower their guards and break out, and three high profile IRA bosses are plucked from Dublin's Mountjoy prison in the world's first helicopter escape.
Great train robber Ronnie Biggs' daring escape and 10,000 days on the run all over the world, and the prison nurse who shot and killed a guard while springing her lover from jail.