Banged Up Abroad
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Flying back from a drug run to Mexico, everything goes wrong for co-pilot Jim PapRocki and Chris Jury when the plane overheats hundreds of miles from the US border.
Episodes 2017
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44:00The shocking story of Debbie Calitz and Bruno Pelizzari, who were kidnapped by Somali pirates and held captive for 10 terrifying months.
45:00The story of 28-year-old Canadian Tabitha Ritchie, whose life took a terrifying turn when she was caught smuggling drugs out of Colombia.
46:00When hot-shot street-racer Rick learns that his girlfriend is pregnant, he is drawn into a life of crime to provide for his family.
46:00When Roy is kidnapped in Iraq while working for the US military, the race is on to find where he is being held - before it's too late.
46:00When the Mafia put a hit on his life, Frank entered the witness-protection program and lifted the lid on criminal activity in Las Vegas.
46:00The incredible story of two pilots imprisoned during the Vietnam War, John McCain and Ernest Brace, who depended on each other for survival.
46:00Thrown into a notorious Bangkok prison for attempting to smuggle heroin, Angela Carnegie has an epiphany while nursing a fellow inmate with a drug addiction.
46:00In 2008, Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan travels with Canadian reporter Amanda Lindhout to report on the war in Somalia. Little did he know that the price of telling the story would be more than a year in captivity.
46:00Desperate to keep his family afloat, Paul Keany agrees to smuggle 6 kilos of cocaine from Venezuela back to Dublin but it turns out to be the worst decision of his life.
46:00The shocking story of Tom Hart Dyke and Paul Winder, two British backpackers who were ambushed and held to ransom by a guerilla group while crossing the notoriously dangerous Darien Gap.
46:00The gripping story of Tom Hanway who fled a Chilean jail with a fellow prisoner, taking a dangerous and fatal escape route across the desert.
46:00Scott can't wait to go travelling in China with his estranged father Lockie, and then he finds out his dad is secretly planning to smuggle 20 kilos of cannabis.
45:00Captured by Qaddafi's men while fighting with rebels in Libya, Baltimore-born Matthew VanDyke spent nearly six months in solitary confinement.
45:00The traumatic story of an American schoolboy and his mother, who were kidnapped by terrorists in the Philippines and held to ransom in the jungle.
45:00Banged Up Abroad takes you inside accounts of capture, incarceration and terror far away from home with intimate personal interviews, first-hand accounts and dramatic re-enactments.
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45:00Discover the true story behind the Oscar-winning film 'Argo', and Mendez's daring plan to rescue six diplomats during the Iranian hostage crisis.
47:00When schoolteacher Howard Marks agrees to help an old friend finish off a drug deal, he has no idea that it will be the start of a new career.
46:00When Eddie Padilla takes LSD for the first time his life suddenly changes. Before long he has helped form a movement called the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, dedicated to taking acid and smuggling dope to make money.
46:00Tom Crutchfield was one of America's biggest reptile smugglers. But when he was finally caught, he was sent to a notoriously brutal prison.