Discovery Channel - Great Escapes and Prison Breaks (2000) Part 10 Escape Stories Triumph Over Tyranny

Whether escaping from a prison or evading an enemy, individuals have shown extraordinary courage and inventiveness during their bids for freedom. “Great Escapes and Prison Breaks” details a number of prison breaks and escapes against the odds, including the mass breakout of Allied airmen from Stalag Luft III, immortalized in the movie The Great Escape.

Part 10: Escape Stories: Triumph Over Tyranny

The twentieth century has endured some of the most tyrannical regimes of all time, to escape from them families risked everything to reach freedom and stay together. These are the stories of incredible bravery in the face of crushing oppression, of daring and ingenuity against overwhelming odds. These are true stories of those who triumphed over tyranny. Cold War-era escapes include two from East to West Germany in a which a couple drove a sports car under the border barriers and a family who hid in a butcher's truck. Also: a Cuban pilot who fled in a MiG fighter jet and returned two years later for his family.

TRIUMPH OVER TYRANNY * One Hundred minutes to Freedom * The Berlin Wall * The Sewers of Lvov

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