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Real Prison Breaks

Season 1
Narrated by Sean Bean, Real Prison Breaks investigates cases from across the United Kingdom, USA, Australia and New Zealand. The series features exclusive interviews with escapees combined with interviews and insight from the professionals that have hunted, guarded and are constantly trying to figure out what makes these criminals tick.
200810 episodesX-Ray13+
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Episode One
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    February 2, 2008
    46min
    13+
    A love struck girlfriend hijacks a helicopter to pluck her man from jail and one of the world's biggest breakouts: 38 inmates in one go!
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  2. S1 E2 - Episode Two
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    February 9, 2008
    46min
    16+
    A female warder falls in love with a felon and springs him from jail, and an escaped murderer on the run cons a cop into letting him go.
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  3. S1 E3 - Episode Three
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    February 16, 2008
    46min
    16+
    A prison nurse kills a guard to spring her inmate lover from jail plus great train robber Ronnie Bigg's daring escape and 10,000 days on the run.
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  4. S1 E4 - Episode Four
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    February 23, 2008
    46min
    16+
    The biggest death-row break out in U.S history and the world's first helicopter escape.
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  5. S1 E5 - Episode Five
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    March 1, 2008
    46min
    13+
    The Alacatraz escape they didn't want you know about and a modern day Count of Monte Cristo breaks out of Monaco's 17th century prison.
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  6. S1 E6 - Episode Six
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    March 8, 2008
    46min
    16+
    Escape by a rope made of dental floss and the last man hanged in Australia: the break out that sealed his fate.
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  7. S1 E7 - Episode Seven
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    March 15, 2008
    46min
    16+
    In the US a murderous gang of 7 bust out of a Texas prison leaving chaos in their wake, in Britain IRA terrorists are re-captured after just minutes on the run and in Australia an inmate loses half his body weight and slips through his cell bar window to freedom.
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  8. S1 E8 - Episode Eight
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    March 22, 2008
    46min
    13+
    In the UK a sociopath bomber uses a hand-made key to open a door to freedom, in the US a serial killer uses bed sheets to escape a fifteen story prison window and in Australia an escapee is shot dead on a crowded bus while on the run.
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  9. S1 E9 - Episode Nine
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    March 29, 2008
    46min
    13+
    In the UK, a hi-jacked chopper is used in England's first helicopter escape, in Australia an escapee sends photo's of himself while on the run to authorities he's dubbed the postcard bandit and in the US, six vicious murderers tunnel their way to freedom.
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  10. S1 E10 - Episode Ten
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    April 5, 2008
    46min
    16+
    In the UK John McVicar gets away with one of the most brazen escapes in British history, in New York State a small time criminal on the run turns into a cop killer and in Australia ex-bureaucrat and drug importer walks out of jail in a false wig and beard.
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Content advisory
Flashing lightsviolence
Subtitles
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Directors
Andre Eavis
Cast
Sean Bean
Studio
Southern Star
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