Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman S02E05 - Escaping Devil's Island
Summary:
Rene Belbenoit, a petty thief is captured and sentenced to hard time at France's notorious penal colony in French Guiana. He determines to escape or die trying. After many years and numerous harrowing escapes--he finally gets free. His story becomes the basis of several popular movies in Hollywood.
Source: WEB
Runtime: 43 min 5 sec(s)
Size: 706 MiB
Video: 1280 X 720 / 2225kb/s / 23.976 fps
Audio: English / AAC / 2 channels / 64.0 kb/s
Subs: English, English (SDH)
Synopsis:
Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman is an eightpart series from The HISTORY Channel hosted
and executive produced by Morgan Freeman. The fivetime Academy Award nominee and onetime
Academy Awardwinning actor has appeared in hundreds of films and television roles. One of
his most famous and beloved performances was in Shawshank Redemption, a film focusing on
the exploits of a group of inmates inside the fictional Shawshank State Penitentiary.In
the series, Morgan will explore reallife prison breaks that have captured the attention of
the public. It's an up close and personal view of what the prisoners are faced with in
executing their break outs. Famous escapes from Alcatraz, Dannemora, Pittsburgh State
Penitentiary and other locations are recreated with actors playing key roles and
interviews from some of the prisoners themselves, their families, their cell mates
and from the guards and prison employees that tried to prevent the escapes. Along with the
interviews and recreations, the series will utilize new software technology called Unreal
Engine to recreatewith great verisimilitudethe prisons themselves.