Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman

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

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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.

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

A lifelong escape artist, Forrest Tucker, ends up in San Quentin prison; despite his advanced age, he manages to engineer an audacious prison break.

Interviews and re-creations bring some of historys most daring jailbreaks to life, detailing every step of the way, including the inmates meticulous plans and the manhunts that followed.

During the Civil War, a daring prison break frees hundreds of captured Union soldiers; Colonel Thomas Rose was a schoolteacher before the Civil War; when he was captured and sent to Libby Prison in Richmond Virginia, he engineers a mass escape.