Locked Up Abroad
The true story behind the Oscar-winning film, "Argo," which is about CIA operative Tony Mendez's daring plan to rescue six diplomats during the Iranian hostage crisis.
The true story behind the Oscar-winning film, "Argo," which is about CIA operative Tony Mendez's daring plan to rescue six diplomats during the Iranian hostage crisis.
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Australian Mark O'Brien joins an ashram in India after being dissatisfied with life, not realizing his actions will lead him to Yawanda Prison.
David and Tom attempt to smuggle 110 pounds of hash from Afghanistan to Germany in a Land Rover everything is going according to plan until they reach the Greek border, where the guards drill into the bottom of the truck and the hashish pours out.
Champion skier Nick Brewer flees home and begins selling pills in France.
Latasha Madison gets a chance to dance in a club in Thailand, where she falls in love with a man named Phillip caught with a stash of Phillip's heroin, she is sent to Thailand's notorious "Bangkok Hilton" prison.
Keith Stansell is taken hostage by FARC guerrillas after his plane crashes in the Colombian jungle.
A woman's offer of work in Peru leads to incarceration, attempted murder and the ultimate betrayal.
After a man loses his job and gets a divorce, his friend offers him work smuggling cocaine he is eventually caught and sentenced to 10 years in a Dominican prison.
Texan Carlos Quijas is a happy family man whose girlfriend, Anna, is expecting their first child, but, in Mexico, his life changes forever when he's falsely imprisoned and tortured for drug smuggling.
U.S. Naval Officer Lamar Burton tries to survive in one of Colombia's most brutal prisons.
A gripping look at how schoolteacher Howard Marks became one of the world's biggest cannabis traffickers and how, eventually, his vast empire began to unravel.
Rick Cedar begins stealing radios to support his family, but finds his life and freedom hanging on the line.
Chicago Outfit enforcer Frank Cullotta speaks out about the notorious deeds of boss Tony Spilotro, his life in the mob and the burglary that led to his capture.
Former hash-smuggling hippie Eddie Padilla escapes from one of Peru's most notorious prisons, nicknamed the House of the Devil.
After months of torturous tunnelling, two surfers caught up in cannabis smuggling, escaped their Mexican jail.
The true story behind the Oscar-winning film, "Argo," which is about CIA operative Tony Mendez's daring plan to rescue six diplomats during the Iranian hostage crisis.
Caught trying to smuggle heroin, Jerry Amster finds himself facing a lengthy spell in one of Russia's toughest labor camps.
Dumped by her lover, a Chicago woman smuggles heroin from Thailand to fund a new life when caught and sentenced to life at a notorious Bangkok prison, she attempts suicide but fails.
For money to party and to support his daughter, a jobless man, Duane Wollum, smuggles cocaine from Nicaragua into the U.S.
After his father is jailed in China for smuggling cannabis, Scott Campbell risks all, continuing with his dad's unfinished mission in order to pay for his lawyer.
The story of an Iraqi soldier who was forced to become a body double for Uday Hussein, Saddam's highly volatile eldest son.
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