Breakout (2010)
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Length
- 2 seasons, 18 episodes
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This series dramatizes actual prison breakouts from around the world. Each episode reenacts the planning and execution of a different escape.
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What happens
Breakout is a Canadian television series that aired on the National Geographic Channel throughout the world. It dramatizes real life prison breakouts. The series premiered on March 28, 2010, and aired its last episode on March 23, 2013. It was listed as a Canada/UK co-production. A number of different producers, writers, actors and other film professionals worked on different episodes. Episode 15, which featured the prison escape of South African political prisoners Tim Jenkin, Stephen Lee and Alex Moumbaris from Pretoria Central Prison in 1979, was shown in the United Kingdom on 19 April 2013. This escape was again dramatized in the feature-length film, Escape from Pretoria, starring Daniel Radcliffe. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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