A lone wolf prisoner, who aspires to writing crime novels, ends up the star of his own break out story when he figures out how to escape from one of Mississippi's oldest and most notorious prison farms, Parchman Penitentiary.

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.

A 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.

During 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.

Rene Belbenoit, a petty thief, is captured and sentenced to hard time at France's notorious penal colony in French Guiana. He determines he'll escape or die trying.

Quawntay Adams is sentenced to a long prison term. When he finds out he is going to be a father, he decides to break out of his maximum-security cell.

When Colonel Thomas Rose was captured and sent to Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, he engineered one of the greatest mass escapes in history.       

An Iranian American psychopath is thrown into the men's city jail. Before he gets sent to a higher security prison, he escapes by crawling up the plumbing chase.