History’s Greatest Escapes With Morgan Freeman on SBS Viceland and SBS on Demand S2E1 and S2E2 – History’s Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman is hosted by the five-time Oscar nominee and one-time Oscar winning actor. One of his most famous and beloved performances was in Shawshank Redemption, a film focusing on the exploits of a group of inmates inside Shawshank State Penitentiary.
This season, Morgan explores real life prison breaks that have captured the attention of the public as well as the authorities that tried to prevent them. Famous escapes at Devil’s Island, during the Vietnam War, and at Sobibor Death Camp during WWII as well as other prison locations are recreated, with interviews from some of the prisoners themselves, their families, their cell mates and from the guards and prison employees that tried to prevent the escapes.
Episode One: Fleeing Parchman
A 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.
Episode Two: Vietnam POW Escape
A 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.
History’s Greatest Escapes With Morgan Freeman on SBS Viceland and SBS on Demand – New Season Premiere / Thursday 7 November at 8.30pm (8 Parts)
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History’s Greatest Escapes With Morgan Freeman on SBS Viceland and SBS on Demand S2E1 and S2E2
