History's Greatest Escapes With Morgan Freeman

A prisoner with a love of crime novels becomes the star of his own story when he escapes from Mississippi's notorious Parchman Penitentiary. (S2, ep 1)

A German-American pilot, Dieter Dengler, uses survival skills honed as a child to escape a secret prison in Laos during the early years of the Vietnam war. (S2, ep 2)

A lifelong escape artist, Forrest Tucker, ends up in San Quentin prison - but despite his advanced age, he manages to engineer an audacious prison break. (S2, ep 3)

During World War II, the Nazi war machine creates specialised death camps. At Sobibor, Poland, a small number of Jews engineer a mass escape. (S2, ep 4)

Petty thief Rene Belbenoit is sentenced to time at France's notorious penal colony in French Guiana - but he is determined to escape or die trying. (S2, ep 5)

Quawntay Adams gets caught up in a marijuana bust and is sentenced to prison - but when he learns he is going to be a father, he determines to escape. (S2, ep 6)

A daring prison break, engineered by former teacher Colonel Thomas Rose, frees hundreds of captured Union soldiers during the Civil War. (S2, ep 7)

An Iranian-American psychopath goes to jail in Southern California, but escapes before he can be transferred to a higher security prison. (S2, ep 8)