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Title: I Escaped: Real Prison Breaks

Original title: I Escaped: Real Prison Breaks

Year of manufacture: 2010

Genre: Documentary

Issued: Canada

Director: Brian Rees, Jeff VanderWaal

About the film: The incredible truth about the greatest prison escapes in history.

Episode 1: American criminal Brian Nichols, who is facing life imprisonment for brutal rape, escapes from prison. And in Ireland, 38 prisoners escape at once!

Episode 2 A guard falls in love with a prisoner, helps him escape and takes part in a shootout with him. And the killer, who vowed to escape, finally succeeds.

Episode 3: A prison nurse marries prisoner George Hyatt, but their escape is followed by murder. We'll also talk about Ronald Biggs, a participant in the Great Train Robbery.

Episode 4 When six death row inmates escape from a maximum security prison, the police fear for the general public. 23-year-old serial runner Bedness Beans is going on the run again.

Episode 5: A former Green Beret escapes from a 17th-century prison in Monaco, but it looks like he chose the wrong accomplices. Also the escape from Alcatraz, which they prefer to remain silent about.

Episode 6: An astonishing prison escape using a rope made from dental floss leaves the authorities baffled. The helicopter is hijacked and the pilot is forced to fly to a high-security prison.

Episode 7 A gang of murderers escapes from a Texas prison, leaving chaos behind them, and an Australian prisoner loses half his original weight and escapes from between the bars.

On February 23, 1992, an attempt was made to escape from the Kresty pre-trial detention center. Seven criminals captured Kresty employees, but they failed to escape. As a result, three prisoners and one prison officer died. Attempted escapes from Russian prisons do not happen often, and each of them becomes the subject of increased attention. We will tell you about the five most high-profile escape attempts from Russian prisons.

Crosses, 1992

An attempt to escape from the pre-trial detention center “Kresty” on February 23, 1992 is one of the most famous attempts to escape from IZ No. 47/1 of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, better known as “Kresty”.

In June 1991, repeat offender Yuri Nikolaevich Perepelkin, born in 1959, was brought to Kresty. He was previously convicted of theft and escape from a penal colony.

Perepelkin planned his escape on the holiday of February 23, 1992. Seven prisoners captured two employees of Kresty and demanded that they give them weapons, transport, drugs and not interfere with them on their way to the airport.

The hostage-taking report was received by the duty station at about nine in the morning. Lengthy negotiations with criminals did not yield positive results. During the assault, special forces soldiers neutralized the attackers, but casualties from the pre-trial detention center officers could not be avoided. The leader of the rebellious gang managed to inflict several fatal blows sharpening to dog handler Alexander Yaremsky. During the assault, three intruders were killed by sniper shots. Three more were detained. The gang leader was sentenced to capital punishment for organizing the escape and murder of a prison officer - execution, which was replaced by life imprisonment after the adoption of a moratorium.

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Crosses, 1922

On November 11, 1922, a bandit called Lenka Panteleev and three of his accomplices tried to escape from the St. Petersburg Kresty prison, and this attempt was crowned with success. They managed to break free thanks to a pile of firewood that had been carelessly stacked near one of the outer walls that surrounded the area.

Using firewood it was possible to jump over the fence, but no one wanted to break their legs, so the prisoners showed their imagination and wove ropes from blankets and sheets, along which they carefully lowered themselves to the ground on the appointed day.

This escape attempt was also carried out on a holiday - Police Day. Thus, the criminals wanted to make a “gift” to the Soviet law enforcement officers, who had somewhat relaxed their vigilance on their professional holiday. Some employees paid for this failure with their positions.

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Sailor's Silence, 1995

The most famous escape from “Matrosskaya Tishina” (pretrial detention center No. 1 in Moscow) took place in 1995. Alexander Solonik, nicknamed “Killer No. 1,” fled. He was suspected of numerous murders in the interests of the Kurgan criminal group.

Its members installed their own person in the pre-trial detention center as a warden. He carried climbing equipment and a pistol into Solonik’s solitary cell. At night, they put a dummy under the blanket together, then climbed to the roof of the isolation ward and, using equipment, descended to the street. Solonik fled to Greece. In 1997, he was killed in a villa near Athens.

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Butyrka, 2010

In 2010, burglar Vitaly Ostrovsky staged a successful escape from Butyrka (pretrial detention center No. 2 in Moscow). He escaped in broad daylight in front of an astonished public.

During the day, an unarmed guard came into Ostrovsky’s cell to take him to the bathhouse. They forgot to put handcuffs on him, and therefore, seizing the moment, Ostrovsky pushed the guards away and rushed to the door, which, by a strange coincidence, was not blocked. Having run out into the courtyard, the prisoner ran into a 4.5-meter fence and began to climb up it with great dexterity. While the prison guards realized what had happened, and the dogs ran along the perimeter of the fence, the criminal disappeared.

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As long as prisons exist, people will escape from them, or at least attempt to escape. Below is a list of the most incredible and daring prison escapes in history.

10. Escape from Maze Prison

The largest escape in British history occurred on September 25, 1983 in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Then 38 Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoners, who had been convicted of crimes including murder and bombings, escaped from the prison's H-Block. One prison officer died of a heart attack as a result of the escape, and twenty people were injured, including two killed.

They were all shot at from cannons that had been smuggled into the prison. Maze Prison was considered one of those prisons from which it was simply impossible to escape. In addition to the main fence, almost 5 meters high, each block was surrounded by a 6 meter high concrete wall covered with barbed wire, and all gates of the complex were made of steel and controlled electronically.

At 2:30 a.m., prisoners took control of H-Block, holding prison guards hostage at gunpoint. Some prisoners “borrowed” clothes and keys from the guards to make it “more convenient” to escape. At 3:25 a.m., a food truck arrived and the prisoners told the driver that he would help them escape. They tied his foot to the clutch pedal and told him where to go. At 3:50 the truck left the N-block, and 38 prisoners left it with it.

Over the next few days, 19 fugitives were captured. IRA members helped the rest of the fugitives with shelter. Some of the escapees were found in the United States and were handed over to the authorities. Due to policies in Northern Ireland, none of the remaining fugitives were actively searched for, and some of those caught were even granted an amnesty.

Note the wires strung above the prison yard - this was done to prevent the helicopter from landing, since the next failed escape attempt was made using a helicopter.

9. Alfred Hinds

Alfie Hinds was a British criminal who, after spending 12 years in prison for robbery, successfully overcame three major security systems in three prisons. Although his 13th appeal to the higher courts was rejected, he was eventually able to obtain a "pardon" thanks to his excellent knowledge of the British legal system.

After being sentenced to 12 years in prison for robbing a jewelery shop, Hinds escaped from Nottingham prison by breaking through locked doors and scaling 6m walls. After that in the means mass media he became known as "Gooddini Hinds".

>6 months later he was found and arrested. After his arrest, Hinds sued the authorities, alleging the illegality of the arrest, and he successfully used this incident to plan his next escape from the courtroom.

Two guards took him to the toilet, and when Hinds was handcuffed, he pushed the men into a stall and locked them with a lock that his accomplices had previously attached to the door. He ran into the crowd on Fleet Street but was caught at the airport five hours later. Hinds would make his third escape from Chelmsford prison in less than a year.

Once back in prison, Hinds continues to send memoranda to the British Parliament declaring his innocence, as well as providing recordings of his interviews to the press. He would continue to appeal his arrest and, following a "technicality" in British law which did not make it a misdemeanor to escape from prison, his final appeal to the House of Lords in 1960 was rejected after three hours of argument by Hinds before he was returned and spent a further 6 years in prison. The photo shows Nottingham Prison, the first prison from which Hinds escaped.

8. Texas Seven

The Texas Seven were a group of prisoners who escaped from John Connolly Prison on December 13, 2000. They were detained on January 21-23, 2001 with the help of television show"America's Most Wanted."

On December 13, 2000, as a result of a complex escape scheme, they managed to escape from a serious state prison located near the town of Kenedy in South Texas. With the help of several well-planned tricks, the seven convicts managed to defeat 9 maintenance controllers and were free at 11:20.

The escape occurred during a "slow" period of the day when certain places are under a low degree of control, as a rule, these are lunch time and roll call time. Typically, in such situations, one of the accomplices calls the unsuspecting person over, and the other hits him on the head from behind.

The criminals then take some of the clothing, tie the person up, gag him, and leave him behind a locked door. This is what happened with 11 prison workers and 3 prisoners who happened to be nearby. The attackers stole clothes and credit cards.

Immediately after escaping, they dared to rob, but the group posed as store security guards, creating a false impression to ward off suspicion from the authorities. They ended up back in prison, having driven there in the same pickup truck they used to break out.

It was the most daring escape in the entire history of prisons. The prisoners allowed themselves a lot during their time in freedom; they did not even try to go underground and wait out some time. The five surviving participants in the escape are on death row awaiting death by injection, the sixth committed suicide, and the seventh has already received his “injection.”

7. Alfred Wetzler

Wetzler was a Slovak Jew, in fact, he was one of the few Jews known to have escaped the Auschwitz death camp during the Holocaust. Wetzler became famous for the report he and fellow fugitive Rudolf Vrba wrote about the inner workings of the Auschwitz camp.

The report included construction plan camps, details of the structure of gas chambers, crematoria and much more. Ultimately, the 32-page report became the first detailed account of Auschwitz to be considered credible by the Western Allies.

Ultimately, this document led to the bombing of some government buildings in Hungary, which killed important officials who played a major role in the railway deportation of Jews to Auschwitz. The deportations were stopped, saving the lives of about 120,000 Hungarian Jews.

Wetzler fled with a Jewish friend named Rudolf Vrba. Using an underground camp on Friday, April 7, 1944, on Easter Eve, the two men reached a hole in the woods for new arrivals. This was a place outside the barbed wire of Birkenau's inner perimeter, however, the area was still part of the outer perimeter, which was guarded 24 hours a day. The two remained in hiding for 4 nights to avoid being returned.

On April 10, wearing Dutch suits, coats and boots that they had grabbed from the camp, they headed south to the river towards the Polish border with Slovakia, and they walked based on the image in the picture from the children's atlas that Vrba found in the warehouse.

6. Savomir Rawicz

Rawicz was a Polish soldier who was arrested by Soviet occupation forces after the German-Soviet invasion of Poland. When Germany and Soviet Union attacked Poland, Ravich returned to Pieck, where he was arrested by the NKVD on November 19, 1939. He was taken to Moscow. First he went to Kharkov for interrogation, and then, after the trial, he ended up in the Lubyanka prison in Moscow.

According to Ravich himself, he successfully resisted all attempts by torture to extract confessions from him. He was convicted of allegedly espionage, and was sentenced to 25 years of hard labor in a Siberian camp. He was taken along with thousands of others to Irkutsk and forced to march to a camp 303,650 km south of the Arctic Circle to build the camp from scratch.

On April 9, 1941, as Ravich says, he and six other prisoners escaped from the camp in the midst of a snowstorm. They ran south, bypassing the cities in fear that they might be surrendered. On the road they met another fugitive - Polish woman Kristina. Nine days later, the prisoners crossed the Lena River, they bypassed Lake Baikal and approached Mongolia. Fortunately, the people they encountered were friendly and hospitable.

While crossing the Gobi Desert, two of the group, Christina and Makowski, died. Others ate the earth to survive. Around October 1941 they say they reached Tibet. Locals were very friendly, especially when the fugitives said that they were trying to get to Lhasa. By mid-winter they crossed the Himalayas. Another participant in the “expedition,” as Ravich says, froze in his sleep, and another fell from the mountain. According to Ravitch, the survivors reached India around March 1942.

5. Escape from Alcatraz

Over the 29 years of Alcatraz prison's existence, there were 14 escape attempts involving 34 prisoners. According to official data, none of the escapes were successful, because most of the escape participants were either killed or returned back.

However, the participants in the 1937 and 1962 escapes, although considered dead, are actually missing, which leads to theories that these escape attempts were successful.

The most famous and most difficult escape attempt from Alcatraz (June 11, 1962) belongs to Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers, who escaped from their cells and managed to make their way out through a drain pipe to the shore, where they built a pontoon type the raft on which they disappeared.

The trio are believed to have drowned in the San Francisco Bay, but the fugitives are officially listed as missing because their bodies have not been found. However, they may have managed to get out and head to a place where no one knew or saw them.

4. Libby Prison Escape

The Libby Prison Escape was one of the most famous and successful prison escapes during the American civil war. On the night of February 10, 1864, more than 100 captured soldiers escaped their confinement at Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia. Of the 109 men, 59 managed to reach the Union line, 48 were captured, and two more drowned in the James River. Libby Prison in Richmond occupied an entire block. Just north of the prison lay Carey Street, which connected the prison to the rest of the city. On the south side flowed the James River.

The prison was three stories high with a basement on the river bank. The living conditions there were extremely poor, sometimes there was no food at all, and even if there was food, the diet was extremely meager, and there was practically no sewage system. Thousands of people died there.

The prisoners managed to get into the basement of the prison, known as "rat hell". The basement had not been used for a long time due to the complete penetration of rats into it, but the prisoners, once there, began to dig a tunnel. After 17 days of digging, they managed to escape to a vacant lot on the east side of the prison and hide in an old tobacco warehouse. When Colonel Rose finally broke through to the other side, he told his men that "the underground Railway open to God's country."

The officers escaped from prison in groups of 2-3 on February 9, 1864. Once within the walls of the tobacco barn, the men simply left and calmly walked to the gate. The tunnel was at a sufficient distance from the prison, so they could easily move through the dark streets.

3. Pascal Payet

There is no doubt that this man deserves a place on this list, as he escaped not once, but twice from French prisons the strictest regime, both times using a hijacked helicopter. He also helped organize the escape of three other prisoners, again by helicopter.

Payet was initially sentenced to 30 years in prison for the murder committed during the robbery of a cash-in-transit vehicle. After his first escape in 2001, he was captured and added to his sentence in 2003 for another 7 years for escape. He then escaped from Grasse prison via helicopter, which was hijacked by four masked men at Cannes-Mandelieu airport.

The helicopter landed some time later in Brignol, 38 kilometers northeast of Toulon on the Mediterranean coast. Payet and his accomplices later fled the scene, and the pilot was released. Payet was recaptured on September 21, 2007 in Mataro, near Barcelona. He made himself a row plastic surgery, but the Spanish police were still able to identify him.

2. The Great Escape

Stalag Luft III was a prisoner of war camp during World War II that housed captured personnel air force. In January 1943, Roger Bushell developed a plan to escape from the camp. The plan was to dig three deep tunnels, codenamed "Tom", "Dick" and "Harry". The entrance to each tunnel was carefully thought out so that the camp guards would not be able to detect them.

In order to protect the tunnels from detection by microphones, they were very deep and were located at a depth of 9 meters. The tunnels themselves were very small (0.37 square meter), although relatively large chambers were dug for the air pump, and there were also posts in each tunnel. The sandy walls of the tunnels were reinforced with wooden blocks found throughout the camp.

As the tunnels grew, a number of technical innovations made the work easier and safer. One of critical issues was to provide the diggers with enough oxygen so that they could work and hold their lanterns. Pumps were built that pushed Fresh air through air duct systems in tunnels.

Later, electric lighting was installed, connected from the camp electrical network. Moreover, the miners installed small carriage systems that accelerated the movement of sand. These were the same systems that had been used previously during mining operations. The rails were key, moving 130 tons of material in five months, which certainly reduced the time it took for the miners to complete the job.

"Harry" was finally completed in March 1944, but by then the American prisoners, some of whom had been working especially hard to dig the tunnel, had been moved to another compound. Prisoners had to wait about a week for a moonless night so they could remain under the cover of complete darkness.

Finally, on Friday, March 24, the escape began. Unfortunately for the prisoners, the tunnel was too short. It was planned that the exit from the tunnel would be in the forest, but it turned out to be almost at the very entrance to the forest. Despite this, 76 men crawled towards long-awaited freedom even in daytime when the electric lighting was turned off.

Finally, at 5 a.m. on March 25, the 77th man was seen leaving the tunnel by one of the guards. Of the 76 men, only three escaped capture. 50 people were killed on the spot, and the rest were captured and sent back.

1. Escape from Colditz

Colditz was one of the most famous prison camps for officers during the Second World War. The camp was located at Colditz Castle, located on a cliff overlooking the city of Colditz in Saxony. There were several successful escape attempts from Colditz, but one story deserves special attention.

One of the most ambitious escape attempts from Colditz came from two British pilots, Jack Best and Bill Goldfinch, who ended up at the camp after escaping from another prison camp. The idea was to build a two-seat glider piece by piece.

The glider was assembled by pilots in the lower attic above the chapel, and had to be launched from the roof to fly across the River Malde, which was approximately 60 meters below. The officers who took part in the project built a false wall to hide secret place in the attic, where they slowly built a glider from stolen pieces of wood.

Because the Germans were accustomed to seeking underground escape routes rather than secret workshops, the pilots felt safe. The aircraft's hundreds of ribs were mostly constructed from bed slats, but the prisoners were not above any other piece of wood they could get their hands on. The wing spars were made from floorboards. They obtained the wires to control the device from electrical wiring in an unused part of the castle.

Airframe expert Lorne Welch was invited to study and verify Goldfinch's designs and calculations. Despite the fact that in real life the glider never took off; in 2000, a copy of it was built for documentary film"Escape from Colditz", in which John Lee takes off on the first try and arrives at his destination.

While Best and Goldfinch never escaped from the camp, because the camp was liberated by the Allies just as the glider was almost ready, this method of escape was certainly the most interesting and innovative.

It so happened that I was not particularly familiar with the fourth season; I had only seen a few episodes. The thing is that the fourth season disappointed me very much, and for some time I was terribly angry with the creators of this, as it seemed to me, grandiose series. I probably watched the first three seasons, which included about sixty episodes, in a record three days. This is explained by the fact that I could not fall asleep not knowing what would happen next. The series simply amazed me with its chic and damn interesting idea. Each episode was a portion of an unearthly thrill. The fourth season disappointed me because after watching several episodes, I simply did not recognize the previous series.

There was no longer the previous intensity of passion, the actors already looked tired, they probably expected that story line will end in the third season, where, in principle, everything was logical to end this series, and, as they say, leave gracefully. Series from fourth season they weren’t as catchy as before, I was very bored watching this perfect new series with the same actors, and I decided to just forget about it all, and it’s better to start watching something new. I also spent a lot of time rejecting this feature film. And when I finally found the time to watch it, I didn’t even know that this film was just a gluing together of two latest episodes fourth season, as it turned out, they were worth highlighting from this entire tedious pack of episodes last season.

So to speak, escape is back! In my opinion, the directors made a very, very right move, because with such an amazing, I’m not afraid of this word, one of best TV series all over the world, it was necessary to part beautifully and correctly. Today's directors don't know and don't want to know what it means to end a film beautifully and correctly, so they make the endings of their series (films) so mysterious that then you don't sleep at night, jumping from forum to forum in search of one single answer - will there be a continuation? ?

gave his fans the last hour and a half of a good old escape in his excellent traditions. With this film, directors, screenwriters, actors and everyone who worked on this charming, brilliant series say goodbye to its entire multi-million army of fans."Prison Break: The Final Escape" this is a bright, very interesting, dynamic, and simply cool conclusion to the adventures that began back in 2005. I really liked that this final escape

I gathered around me all the well-known characters from this series. At the beginning of the film, I somehow doubted the new escape design that Michael began to develop. It seemed to me that the writers would not be able to recreate anything similar to the first season, but I was very much mistaken, the escape turned out to be very bright and fascinating, it was very interesting to watch the actions of all the characters in the film. The picture kept me in suspense for the entire hour and a half, and at some points I even began to worry about my old, good friends.

Reviewing the series ten years later, I can note that its ability to hook you and not let go is still in effect: having started watching the first episode, I could not do anything else seriously until I had finished the entire first season. But one thing is not to let go, and another is the mistakes that I began to see ten years later. Since there are plenty of positive reviews here, I will reflect on the cons that caught your eye. -I understand that Chicago is located in relatively northern regions and is also near a huge lake, but this is not a reason to change the weather for the sake of the plot. In the episode where they broke down the wall behind the toilet, the cell was heated. That same day, in the morning, the doctor told Scofield that this was supposedly the hottest April day so far. Lately. But towards the end of the season, the authors of the series arrange winter so that the main characters begin to wear jackets, which is convenient for the plot. Moreover, the action of the first season covers a little over a month. -It is mentioned more than once that Abruzzi is a mafia boss. It’s worth watching the series “The Sopranos” to understand that this is how a mafia boss, even one in prison, will never be treated like this. If the word boss is used as a catchphrase, then it is clear that he is not last man in the family, therefore, at least a captain, who has a bunch of people under his command, who certainly should take care not only of him, but also of his relatives in freedom. In general, the mafia side, in my opinion, was a failure. -I don’t think there’s much point in talking about politics, because Americans see this matter from a different angle. And even here it’s just a decoration that no one even bothered to show as it should. But it is worth considering that after being elected, a politician never ceases to depend on his sponsor, and an undesirable one (even the president) is removed by a banal impeachment. -About the escape plan. Isn't it easier for the younger one to get a job as a prison guard-supervisor, since the brothers are already going on the run? From the outside, it is much easier to plan and implement such a movement. I still don’t understand how long the elder sat and waited for the sentence to be carried out (usually this lasts several years), but it clearly took more time to develop the serial plan than if Scofield had infiltrated and thought everything through as he went along. -Where did the mandatory examination of the prisoner after the visit, which flashed once after the visit of Michael’s “wife”, go? When she brought him the keys the second time, he, without worrying, hid them in his sock. After all, they had to undress him and find them during a search. Such questions arose before me as I watched the first season. But they do not cancel the pleasure received from what they saw.