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  8.1/1085 votes

  Alcatraz

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/9/2021

  Four men conspire to break out of one of the most notorious prisons in American history. Three make it to the water's edge... but what happened to them when they left the island remains a mystery to this day.

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  7.8/1069 votes

  North Country Breakout

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/16/2021

  Stuck in prison on life sentences, two men used engineering smarts and psychological manipulation of several prison employees to escape Dannemora Prison; Richard Matt and David Sweat executed one of the most involved escapes from an American prison.

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  8.2/1071 votes

  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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  8.0/1063 votes

  Conquering the Wall

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/30/2021

  Six men, led by the mastermind, Nuno Pontes, escaped Pittsburgh State Penitentiary by tunneling to freedom under the massive wall of the prison. They made it as far as Texas before being caught and returned to prison.

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  8.1/1062 votes

  Escaping Hitler

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/7/2021

  Allied prisoners used all kinds of forgery and engineering tactics to tunnel out of a German Prisoner of War camp. Almost all were caught, fifty were executed and three made their way to freedom.

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  7.2/1055 votes

  Belfast Breakout

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/14/2021

  Almost forty prisoners locked up in HM Maze prison for actions undertaken as members of the IRA, escaped in a food truck. Many were caught right away, some years later, and some were never seen again.

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  7.4/1052 votes

  Fleeing Hellmira

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/21/2021

  Timothy Vail and Timothy Morgan were murderers incarcerated at Elmira State Prison in Elmira, N.Y.;. Vail wanted to escape, so he engaged Morgan in his plan to dig through the ceiling and flee from prison.

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  7.6/1046 votes

  Assassin's Flight

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/28/2021

  James Earl Ray, confessed killer of MLK, was a notorious escape artist. His most audacious escape involved manufacturing a ladder made of plumbing pipe and going over the wall of the Brushy Mountain State Prison.

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