Banged Up Abroad
TV-14
8.2
2007
Crime
, Documentary
, Reality
Documentary series where viewers are taken inside accounts of capture, incarceration, and terror far away from home with intimate personal interviews and dramatic reenactments.
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Episode 10 : Escape From the Gulag
December. 12,2012
It's 1976 in Cold War Moscow, and American Jerry Amster finds himself in the worst situation possible: busted for smuggling drugs from Kuala Lumpur to Russia.
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Episode 9 : Nightmare in Somalia
November. 28,2012
The terrifying story of photojournalist Nigel Brennan and reporter Amanda Lindhout, who are held hostage for 15 months by a criminal gang in Somalia.
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Episode 8 : Busted in Bangkok
August. 27,2012
Thrown into a notorious Bangkok prison for attempting to smuggle heroin, Angela Carnegie has an epiphany while nursing a fellow inmate with a drug addiction.
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Episode 7 : Venezuela Hustle
August. 13,2012
Desperate to keep his family afloat, Paul Keany agrees to smuggle six kilos of cocaine from Venezuela back to Dublin, but it turns out to be the worst decision of his life.
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Episode 6 : The Orchid Hunters
August. 06,2012
The shocking story of Tom Hart Dyke and Paul Winder, two British backpackers who are ambushed and held for ransom by a guerilla group while crossing the notoriously dangerous Darien Gap.
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Episode 5 : Chilean Prison Break
July. 30,2012
The gripping story of Tom Hanway, who flees a Chilean prison with a fellow prisoner, taking a dangerous and fatal escape route across the desert.
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Episode 4 : Not Without My Baby
July. 23,2012
When Susan's Haglof's adoption goes wrong, she ends up in an Egyptian jail, facing a charge of human trafficking.
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Episode 3 : Hasidic King of Coke
July. 16,2012
Orthodox Jew Samuel Leibowitz dreams of making millions as a drug kingpin in Brazil, leading to a terrifying term in the deadly Carandiru Penitentiary.
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Episode 2 : I Am Not a Terrorist
July. 09,2012
Duane Wollum is about to make some easy money smuggling cocaine, until an airport security check reveals that he is concealing a package.
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Episode 1 : My Dad the Smuggler
July. 02,2012
Scott Campbell goes travelling in China with his estranged father, only to find out that his dad is a professional smuggler carrying 20 kilos of cannabis.
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