Two Cold War escape bids from East to West Germany. The story of a Polish-Jewish New Yorker who survived the Nazi horror by hiding in a sewer for 14 months.
A look at wartime heroes who had the courage to help others escape. See the Irish double agent who threw himself from a third floor window to flee captors and escape certain death.
Featuring amazing stories of escape including a British SAS commando and his Gulf War escape. And 'Great Train Robber' Ronnie Biggs talks about how he eluded Scotland Yard.
Telling the horrifying true story behind the film 'Midnight Express', in which the horror of a 1970s Turkish prison was depicted, and other amazing stories of escape.