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Betrayed And Afraid (Season 4)
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Betrayed And Afraid (Season 4)
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Flight To Disaster (Season 4)

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Follow the world’s most daring and dangerous criminals, from a drug trafficking war hero, to a Latin King street boss and a feminist drug baron.

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Mafia Terminator
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In this real life Goodfellas tale, New York teen John Alite gets a job at his local Deli, a hangout for ‘wise guys’. He soon finds himself wanting to be a mobster, and starts running errands for them. Rising swiftly through the ranks, John buries his conscience to become a notorious Mafia hitman. But when the house of cards tumbles, John must choose between his family and his oath to the Mob.
Meth's Top Model
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When a stunning swimwear model hits the big time, she moves to Hollywood to cash in. But life in the fast lane soon takes its toll on her finances and she decides the only way to keep the dream alive is to use her beauty brand as a ruse to ship drugs. By day she’s pulling poses on the beach, and by night she’s packing meth into gift sets, until one journey brings her whole world crashing down.
Declassified: Mexican Cartel Takedown
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An ambitious DEA Agent goes after a notorious Mexican Cartel leader but gets sucked into a dark and treacherous world where the lines between good and evil are blurred. He’ll stop at nothing to get his man, but when tragedy strikes, vengeance takes hold, and he makes a fatal mistake that tears his world apart.
The Mother's Load
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A broke young mom is desperate for a lifeline out of her misery. So when a local drug dealer offers her the chance to bring a suitcase of cocaine back from Venezuela, she agrees. But there’s a catch - she must take her daughter as cover to reduce suspicion. When things don’t go to plan, her world is torn apart.

Love Behind Bars
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Follow the world’s most daring and dangerous criminals, from a drug trafficking war hero, to a Latin King street boss and a feminist drug baron.
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Declassified: Double Cross Dope Deal
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After Chris Heifner is busted with marijuana, he is betrayed by his best friend. Facing the threat of the DEA, the cartel, and a hitman, his only way out is to turn informant.
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Narco Neverland
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To escape a life of poverty, a young Chicago gangster is drawn into smuggling drugs for a dangerous Mexican cartel, until the day it all goes wrong.
Trauma Express
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Travel-loving Bronwyn Atherton finds herself on the road to destruction when she’s lured into the shady world of international drug-smuggling.
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Declassified: A King's Ransom
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Rafael Arguelles is a gangster by the age of 17 but faces life-threatening consequences after going undercover for the FBI against his former friends.
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Big Trouble in Tokyo
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Steven Beattie’s Thai party lifestyle isn’t cheap – he smuggles hash to fund it but pays the ultimate price when he’s locked up in Japan.
Sole Smuggler
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David Harte is in his forties when his life collapses around him. He’s tempted into the shady world of drug smuggling before being busted in Mauritius.
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Fighting Yaba
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Boxing Billy moves to Thailand to escape addiction but is soon dependent on a terrifying new drug and must fight to survive in a brutal local prison.
Casualty of War
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Veteran soldier Brett heads to India to overcome his PTSD but is tempted into smuggling weed out of the mighty Himalayas to Europe.
Dame of Cocaine
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Dancer Andrea defies gender norms when she becomes an international success in the cocaine business before the Australian authorities catch up to her.

Declassified: A Rat’s Tale
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When a man infiltrates the Hells Angels, he’s swept up in a horrific murder. After 19 years in hiding, with a bounty still on his head, Paul Derry tells his story for the first time.
Declassified: Undercover Crack Dealer
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Blackmailed by two corrupt Baltimore cops, a local drug dealer has no choice but to go undercover and collect evidence against them for the FBI.
Declassified: Mole in the Mob
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After an Orange County kid fulfils his dream to become a gangster, a Las Vegas mob hit changes everything. Faced with years behind bars, the gangster turns FBI informant to stay out of jail.
Thai Ice Storm
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A young Londoner heads to Thailand to work in his dad’s bar, but gets seduced by life in the fast lane, until it all comes crashing down.
50 Ton Pot Run
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A 70s hippie turns multimillionaire shipping tons of pot into the US, until one of the biggest busts in history forces him on the run.
A Bellyful of Coke
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A young father learns a hard lesson chasing a gangster lifestyle when he is set up as a decoy on a smuggling trip from Peru.

Undercover Biker
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Drug dealer Charles Falco is facing life in prison. So, he becomes an informer to reduce his sentence. For the first time, he tells us how he infiltrates a deadly motorcycle gang.
Korean Ecstasy King
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In South Korea, English teacher Jesse Moskel becomes the kingpin of a huge MDMA smuggling operation, and one of South East Asia's most wanted men.
Pop Star Smuggler
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After a smash hit, Latino pop star Jimmy Bauer has been dropped by his label, desperate to raise funds to self-promote his new single he agrees to swallow and smuggle heroin back to America.
Somali Pirate Hostage Hell
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In 2009, South Africans Debbie Callitz and Bruno Pelizarri sell everything to buy a yacht and pursue their dream of sailing to India. Then they are boarded by Somali Pirates and held at gunpoint.
Undercover Arms Dealer
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A legitimate British arms dealer is approached to supply weapons to a group of terrorists, he goes undercover for British Intelligence to prevent the massacre of innocent people.
Jungle Terror
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American boy Kevin Lunsmann and his mother Gerfa are visiting family in the Philippines. On the last night of their vacation they are kidnapped at gunpoint by Abu Sayyaf, a terrorist organisation.
Model Drug Runner
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Stripper, Garrain Jones, hits the big-time when he stars in a Beyonce video but then loses it all when he gets caught smuggling heroin through Europe.
Drug Runner Mom
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Struggling Single mom Melanie Di Egidio risks all in exchange for a quick buck, but when the plan goes wrong Melanie is busted with 6 kilos of heroin, caught up in a high-profile sting and sent to a tough Ecuadorian prison.
King of Weed
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Canadian ice hockey star Ryan Phillips risks it all when he starts smuggling marijuana across the US border. It's a game which costs him his family, his career and his freedom.
Colombian Double Cross
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Single mom Heather Ebling's vacation to Colombia doesn't live up to her expectations. Then disappointment turns to terror when on the way home she's arrested for drug trafficking.
Peruvian Prison Break
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A wild-living exotic dancer leaves the club scene of Florida to make a dangerous journey into Peru's drugs underworld, culminating in an insane prison escape.
Miami Mobster Take Down
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Miami mobster Tony Galeota is locked up in Panama's most terrifying jail after being framed for drug dealing and human trafficking. Can he prove his innocence and escape from hell?

Thai Meth Bust
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Jimmy, a postman from England is offered redundancy and ends up running a bar in Thailand. Jimmy soon starts dealing meth and is busted!
Plane Crash Marijuana
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In 1972, Jim PapRocki is convinced by his brother-in-law to be his co-pilot on a drug run to Southern Mexico. On the journey home they crash-land, with the Mexican police hot on their heels.
Greek Border Bust
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Californians David and his friend Tom start smuggling suitcases of marijuana to Hawaii in 1969. Flush with cash they quickly graduate to a much grander scheme.
Thai Prison Hell
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In 1993, Martin Garnett is already earning good money, but he's hungry for more. When he agrees to body-pack 13 bags of drugs from Thailand to Sydney, his lifestyle is about to change.
Bogota Belly Bust
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Tabitha Richie decides to straighten her life out, so when friends offer a vacation in Colombia she jumps at the chance. But Tabitha is about to enter a world far darker than the one she's escaping.
Caribbean Coke King
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Michael Singh loses his job in recruitment and gets a divorce. He falls deep into depression until Andre, an old acquaintance, offers him a job smuggling cocaine. Michael builds a solid friendship with Andre and regaining a sense of purpose in his life. But when Michael takes on a bigger job as a favour for Andre, he is caught smuggling cocaine, and sentenced to 10 years in a Dominican prison.
Mexican Cartel Hell
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Texan Carlos Quijas is a happy, family man, whose girlfriend Anna is expecting their first child. But in Mexico his life is changed forever when he's falsely imprisoned and tortured for drug smuggling.
Narco Wine Bust
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Champion skier Nick Brewer begins selling pills in France. He then becomes kingpin of a multi-million dollar cocaine empire. But it soon comes crumbling down around him.
Bangkok Betrayal
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Latasha Madson, a dancer from Los Angeles, gets an opportunity to dance in a club in Thailand. While there she falls in love with a man named Phillip, the relationship turns into her worst nightmare.
Jungle Crash
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Keith Stansell is flying over the Colombian jungle on a US Government mission to locate hidden drug labs when he is forced to crash-land. Keith and his crew are quickly surrounded by heavily armed FARC guerrillas.
Panamania
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Christina, a 21-year-old Canadian, spends money on partying and taking drugs. Out of work and out of money - an offer of $10,000 for running cocaine from Panama looks like a way out.
Indian Hash Bust
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Australian hippy, Mark O'Brien joins an ashram in India, lead by the infamous guru Osho. A fellow disciple encourages Mark to join her in a plan to smuggle an exotic form of hash to Amsterdam.
Peruvian Parent Trap
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Texan cousins Paris and Marlon jump at the opportunity to run a car wash in Peru. Ahead of them lies incarceration, attempted murder and the ultimate family betrayal.

Breaking Bad in Britain
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When police raid his cocaine lab, drug dealer Pieter Tritton is forced to go on the run but he can't resist collecting one final shipment from Ecuador. He finds himself in one of the world's most violent and corrupt penal systems.
Mexican Border Bust
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In 1974 Steve Peterson attempts to smuggle 120 kg of marijuana from Mexico into the US. The plan is interrupted by Tijuana cops and Steve faces years behind bars in the infamous and deadly La Mesa penitentiary.
Narco at Nineteen
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In 2012 Simone Blignaut has a lucrative job working for one of Johannesburg's biggest drug dealers, but when her boss entrusts her to fly to Bolivia and secure a major cocaine deal, 19 year old Simone is in over her head.
Double Crossed in the Desert
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Journalist Phil Cox returns to Sudan to investigate allegations of illegally deployed chemical weapons; but when he learns that there's a 'kill or capture' bounty on his head his plan starts to unravel.
Escape From Al Qaeda
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After days embedded with rebels from the Free Syrian Army, rookie photographer Matthew Schrier decides he's ridden his luck long enough.
Bad Bromance
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When US Naval Officer Lemar Burton's wife and son leave him, he turns to partying all night with his best friend Dom.
Qaddafi's American Prisoner
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In 2011, Matthew VanDyke is watching news coverage of the Libyan Arab Spring, and decides to join the rebels. He and his unit are ambushed, and he is sent to the notorious Maktab Al Nasser Prison.

Mexican Prison Escape
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Surfers Mike and Mace were caught smuggling marijuana while sailing down the Mexican coast. Did they manage to escape prison and make it home?
Raving Arizona
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Englishman Shaun was seduced by the money and glamour of drug dealing. But when a local Mafia boss took offence, his world turned upside down.
Snakes On A Plane
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Tom Crutchfield was one of America's biggest reptile smugglers. But when he was finally caught, he was sent to a notoriously brutal prison.
Hippy Mafia
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The story of Eddie Padilla, who helped form the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, dedicated to smuggling dope across the Mexican border. Eddie ends up in love and in the notorious Lurigancho Prison.
Vietnam Pows: McCain & Brace
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The incredible story of two pilots imprisoned during the Vietnam War, John McCain and Ernest Brace, who depended on each other for survival but who never met face-to-face during the war.
Vegas Mobster
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When the Mafia put a hit on his life, Frank entered the witness-protection programme and lifted the lid on criminal activity in Las Vegas.
Buried Alive
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When 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.
Fast, Furious and Busted
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When hot-shot street-racer Rick learns that his girlfriend is pregnant, he is drawn into a life of crime to provide for his family.
Hunting Mr. Nice
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When schoolteacher Howard Marks agrees to help an old friend finish off a drug deal, it's the start of his new career. Eventually he becomes a wanted man and goes on the run.
The Real Argo
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Discover the true story behind the Oscar-winning film 'Argo', and Mendez's daring plan to rescue six diplomats during the Iranian hostage crisis.

From Hollywood to Hell
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When young actor Erik Aude discovers that he was tricked into smuggling opium out of Pakistan, he has to fight to clear his name and stay alive.
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The Juggler Smuggler
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Travelling magician Mark Greening juggled a young family with a budding hash-smuggling business after moving to Japan – but he soon got caught.
Escape from Argentina
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A crack-addicted nursing student faces 25 years in prison when she's caught trying to smuggle cocaine from Argentina to the UK.
Highway to Hell
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Adventure-seeker Thomas Hamill took a job driving trucks in Iraq, leading to terrifying spell in captivity after being kidnapped by insurgents.
Black Palace of Horrors
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After a horrific spell in Mexico's notorious Black Palace prison, would-be drug smuggler Dwight Worker vowed to escape - or die trying.
Cocaine Mule Mom
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A middle-aged mother of three decides to smuggle drugs to survive - she makes numerous successful trips until she is finally caught and locked up in a tough South American prison.
Dangerous Liaisons
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Revealing how British nurse Stephen Comiskey drew the unwelcome attention of the Saudi religious police after a series of illicit gay affairs.
Colombian Kidnap
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After eight backpackers are snatched by guerrillas in Colombia, they adopt different survival strategies: cooperation versus outright resistance.
Caribbean Nightmare
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Jayne Blaydon accepted an offer to teach lap dancing in a Caribbean nightclub. But she and her husband David were forced at gunpoint to smuggle multiple kilos of liquid cocaine back to England.
Son of Saddam
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Iraqi soldier Latif Yahia is fighting in the Iran-Iraq War when he is summoned to the palace where, Latif claims Saddam Hussein's eldest son demanded Latif become his body double.
My Dad the Smuggler
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Scott Campbell can't wait to go traveling in China with his estranged father Lockie, and then he finds out his dad is secretly planning to smuggle 20 kilos of cannabis.
I Am Not A Terrorist
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Duane Wollum was about to make some easy money smuggling cocaine – until an airport security check revealed that he was concealing a package.
Hasidic King of Coke
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Orthodox Jew Samuel Leibowitz dreamt of making millions as a drug kingpin in Brazil, leading to a terrifying spell in the deadly Carandiru jail.
Not Without My Baby
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When Susan Haglof forged a birth certificate after a shady adoption in Egypt, she faced the possibility of being imprisoned and losing her baby.
Chilean Prison Break
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Californian Tom Hanway's venture to South America to trade LSD for cocaine goes awry, forcing him to flee Chile as a fugitive.
The Orchid Hunters
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A year ago Tom Dyke set off on a journey from Panama to Colombia, via the treacherous Darien Gap, to look for rare orchids. The trip took an unwelcome turn when he was kidnapped.
Venezuela Hustle
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In a desperate attempt to keep his life and family afloat, Paul Keany's agrees to smuggle six kilos of cocaine from Venezuela.
Nightmare In Somalia
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In July 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.
Busted in Bangkok
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A Chicago woman, dumped by her lover, smuggles heroin from Thailand to fund a new life. When caught at Bangkok airport shes sentenced to life at a notorious Bangkok prison. Unable to endure the prospect of a lifetime behind bars she attempts suicide but fails. While in recovery she finds salvation. Ordered to nurse a fellow inmate with a heroin addiction, Angela Carnegie has an epiphany. It allows her to face the future with a new resolve and win back the love of her life.
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Escape from the Gulag
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In 1976 Jerry Amster is having the time of his life traveling around Amsterdam. But when funds run low, he and two American friends, agree to smuggle heroin from Kuala Lumpur to Amsterdam. However, things don't go to plan. Jerry and his accomplices are busted when their plane stops in Moscow; they're sentenced to a lengthy spell in a Russian labor camp. After nearly four years in prison, when Jerry's at his lowest ebb, he finds himself in the midst of an unbelievable turn of events.

Bangkok Underworld
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At age 28, Tim Schrader left Australia to work as an English teacher in Bangkok. He loved the teaching and the nightlife but was struggling financially, so he agreed to participate in a scam. For $1,000 a trip, Tim arranged fake marriages with Thai girls and flew with them to other countries. After a few successful trips, Tim was offered a chance to make $10,000 by smuggling 4-8 kilos of heroin into the U.S. Although he knew he could face the death penalty if caught in Thailand, the money was too tempting to pass up. But at the airport, Tim was stopped at the check-in counter. In a back room, drug authorities found 10.5 kilos of heroin in his...
The Real Goodfella
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Henry Hill, the inspiration behind Martin Scorsese’s movie, relives his descent from Mafia wise guy to a spell in Terminal Island Penitentiary.
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Holy Rollers
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A drug dealer goes undercover to infiltrate a deadly biker gang; a Hasidic man is an unexpected smuggler.
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Saddam's Iraq
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During the Persian Gulf War of 1990, Tom Lynch and John White made a daring escape attempt from the oil field where they were working, to avoid becoming human shields. However once in the middle of an inhospitable desert a betrayal between the two men occurred and they were captured by the Mukhabarat, Saddams infamous and terrifying secret police force, and plunged into a brutal world of torture and execution.
Insane Escapes
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A stripper makes an insane prison escape in Peru; a group of friends make an epic bid to dig a tunnel out of a Mexican prison in the '70s.
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Saudi Whisky Run
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Gordon Malloch's bootleg booze racket fuelled a party lifestlye in Saudi Arabia, until he got caught and found himself facing four years in jail.
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Smuggler Makeover
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Michael Morey was a music-loving hippie who fell in love with a woman he met in Trinidad. But when he learned he and his girlfriend were expecting a baby, Michael agreed to smuggle cocaine from Ecuador to Europe. When he got to Quito, he was told he'd need to cut his dreadlocks. For Michael, cutting his dreads was like selling his soul, but he didn't think there was another choice. On the day of his departure, he was duct taped with almost 4 kilos of cocaine. In the airport, Michael was almost caught twice: once by a chewing gum wrapper setting off a metal detector, and later by a guard with a German Shepherd. After arriving in Madrid, he nearly...
Euro Trip
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Drug smuggler Howard Marks' operation is busted and he goes into hiding. Model Garrain Jones finds fame and success, but loses it all after smuggling.
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Prisoner of Love
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Briton David Scott tells the story of finding his soulmate in the Philippines - and risking a 14-year prison sentence for adultery.
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Ecstasy Underworld
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English MDMA dealer Shaun Attwood attracts the gaze of an Arizona mafioso. In South Korea, teacher Jesse Moskel starts a huge MDMA smuggling venture.
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Mexico Money Machine
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After heading to Mexico with a suitcase of fake money to buy drugs, Californian bodybuilder Jeremy found himself behind bars and in big trouble.
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Tokyo Takedown
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Jackie Nichols was living the dream, in love with her boyfriend until one day he suddenly died in a car accident. Trying to move on, she decided to go to Japan. She felt alone in Tokyo until she met Yoram, a charming drug mule, who invited her to smuggle hashish with him. She had fallen in love with traveling and needed money to pay for it, so she agreed. On the first trip, she swallowed hundreds of wrapped hashish pellets, but some residual hashish oil was released into her bloodstream. Feeling high while going through security, she very nearly got caught. But the money and the buzz she felt when she got away with it made her come back for more....
The Real Midnight Express
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The 1978 film "Midnight Express" told the story of 23-year-old college student Billy Hayes his life, imprisonment due to drug smuggling and escape from a prison in Istanbul, Turkey. But because of legal reasons, neither the film nor the book, authored by Hayes, were completely accurate. Now, Billy tells the real story of being sent to the infamous Turkish Saðmalcýlar prison. After spending five years there, he was sent to Imrali, an island prison off the coast of Turkey. His journey to freedom from Imrali began after stealing a fisherman's dinghy and heaving a skiff seventeen miles through the rolling waves to the mainland. However, once he...
Heroin Sting
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After being caught with a kilo of heroin in Mauritius, Brigene Young faced 45 years in jail - unless she could help catch the drug traffickers.
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Wise Guys
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Henry Hill of 'Goodfellas' tells the true story of his rise and fall in the mob. Miami mobster Tony Galeota is framed and locked up in Panama.
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Pregnant In Prison
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Struggling single mom Melanie is caught smuggling heroin. Fellow smuggler mom Zara discovers she is pregnant again before she too is imprisoned.
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Colombia Ambush
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Young American backpacker Mark Wedeven wanted the ultimate adventure: crossing from Panama to Colombia overland through the notorious Darién Gap: a hundred miles of dense jungle. But he got more than he bargained for when he and his companions were ambushed by murderous paramilitaries.
Daredevil Drug Runner
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The tale of Chris Chance, whose daredevil life smuggling cannabis into the UK concealed in a rubber body suit led to a nasty prison sentence.
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Tricked Into Trafficking
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Heather Ebling’s dream trip to Colombia turns sour when she’s arrested for drugs. A friend tricks Zoe McGarry into traveling with a bag full of coke.
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Cocaine Trap, The
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Stephen Sutton got caught up when he was offered $15,000 to transport cocaine disguised as gold – leading to an 11-year jail sentence.
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Pirates And Guerrillas
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Debbie and Bruno are captured by Somali pirates. Erez and Reini are snatched by Colombian guerrillas, and grow more desperate as the months pass.
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Drug Dealer Revenge
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Company director Robert Pringle got seven years in a violent South American lock-up after being pressured into drug smuggling by his dealer.
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Teenage Drug Smuggler
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Vivian Carrasquillo faced a crash diet in jail after an attempt to raise funds for gastric bypass surgery by becoming a drug mule backfired.
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Guns, Snakes And Planes
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Arms dealer Peter Bleach goes undercover to prevent a massacre but lands in Indian prison. Reptile smuggler Tom Crutchfield flees the feds in Belize.
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Rise To Fall
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Latin pop star Jimmy Bauer smuggles heroin from the Dominican Republic. Canadian rising hockey star Ryan Phillips smuggles marijuana into the US.
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Backstabbed In Thailand
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Two girls are found to have 14 kilos of drugs in their bags. Sentenced to life in a squalid Thai prison, Kim and Lisa might never see home again.
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Busted For Booze
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Skier Nick Brewer is caught smuggling cocaine into Europe in wine bottles. Chef Gordon Malloch bootlegs wine in Saudi Arabia, becoming the toast of the ex-pat scene - until he's caught.
Venezuela Blues
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April 2006: Atlanta musician David Evans loves his girfriend Julie Goldstein but they're always broke. In a rash attempt to prove he could make some cash, he agrees to act as a drug mule. He deceives Julie by telling her he is going to Europe when actually he flies to Caracas Venezuela. There he picks up 7 pounds (3.2 kilos) of cocaine carried in cans of hairspray. Despite believing that 'everyone is paid off' at Caracas airport, he is caught and arrested. Julie meanwhile has gone to meet him in Amsterdam. She has no idea why he is not there to meet her - until he calls. Over the ensuing months he sinks deeper into the hell of the Venezuelan penal...
Philippine Terror
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Greg Williams travelled to the Philippines in 1996 in the hope of turning his life around as a church volunteer. But within days of arriving, he was kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf - a brutal Islamic terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda. Greg realized his only chance of survival was to escape.
Hash Hell
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Mark OBrien joins an ashram, but some bad choices land him in prison. David Kunkel is caught trying to smuggle hash from Afghanistan to Germany.
Party's Over
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After partying upends his life, a recruiter turns to smuggling cocaine. A party girl spirals into addiction but sees a way out through drug smuggling.
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Mexico Or Bust
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In 1977 Jake Stanford was fresh out of high school and headed off to Mexico in search of adventure and excitement. He got both - but not in quite the way he anticipated. Funding his stay by selling Marijuana to tourists, he unwisely attempted a deal too far when he agreed to supply another American with two kilos of the drug. A resulting drugs bust would see him witness two policemen shot point blank as well as being gunshot himself. After three days holed up in a friend's house he made a doomed escape attempt disguised as a woman before falling into the clutches of the town's menacing chief of police, who soon made it clear he would only save...
Betrayed And Afraid
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Paris and Marlon travel to Peru on business - but find only betrayal. Latasha, a dancer from L.A, is caught with her boyfriends heroin in Bangkok.
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Sao Paulo Death Trap
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In 1993 Brendan Cosso was partying and mixing with celebrities in Hollywood. He didn't need the money. But when the offer came to smuggle cocaine out of Brazil for $50,000, he took it. He was arrested with three friends at Sao Paulo airport. Thanks to the efforts of his father in securing a top criminal lawyer, Brendan received a sentence of four years rather than the 25 demanded by the prosecution. But he was sent to Carandiru prison, the most violent prison in South America, where a year previously 111 prisoners had been massacred.
Busted In Bali
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In 1985 Australian businessman Chris Parnell was arrested and accused of smuggling twelve kilos of hashish in Bali , Indonesia. To avoid going to court and a possible death sentence, he feigned madness, and was locked up in a mental hospital. An early escape attempt ended in disaster when he crashed through a roof into a secure lunatic asylum. After this he stood trail and was sentenced to life in prison. Determined to prove his innocence, he made a further daring escape attempt disguised as a woman, but was recaptured. He spent the next eleven years in a spiraling prison nightmare which in culminated in him being declared dead in a prison mortuary....
Trapped In Thailand
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Jimmy opens a bar in Thailand and is busted dealing meth. After Martin is arrested smuggling heroin, he spends years in Thailands deadliest prisons.
Smuggler Moms
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Coke addict mom Tabitha faces a hard choice while on a Colombian vacation. Kahlilah smuggles a bag of coke through Cuba in a bid to see her daughter.
Teen Smuggler
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El Paso, 1989: Alex Silva is a bored and disaffected teenager, whose life is going nowhere fast. Worried he'll end up on the streets, Alex's uncle gets him a job in a tire shop. But instead of keeping his head down, Alex is distracted by some wealthy Mexican customers. Chasing the scent of money, he discovers that they are drug smugglers, who bring marijuana into the US from Mexico. Alex begs to be let in on the action and finds himself driving marijuana-laden cars across the border from Juarez into El Paso. Thinking this is easy money, he asks for a bigger job. For the next task, Alex, who has never been south of Juarez, will have to drive deep...
Meeting The Mob
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Falsely imprisoned in Mexico, Carlos must get tough to survive. The FBI captures mobster Frank Cullotta, who lifts the lid on the mafia's Vegas rule.
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Hooked In Havana
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When Kahlilah Saleem meets big-shot music producer Roy her life is completely transformed. She moves from Philadelphia to Miami with her six-year-old daughter. But when Roy offers Kahlilah the chance to travel to Panama to see the Carinval, her hopes are turned upside-down. Roy abandons Kahlilah in Panama with a bag stuffed with 8 kilogrammes of pure cocaine. He returns to the US and he holds her daughter hostage to force Kahlilah to smuggle the bag to Paris. But it's no easy journey. Kahlilah must first travel from Panama to Costa Rica and then to Cuba. Along the way she makes friends with English backpacker Laura who is also travelling to Paris....
Flight To Disaster
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Searching for drug labs in Colombia, Keith is kidnapped and held for years. Jim is tortured after trying to fly a ton of weed out of Mexico.
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Kidnapped In Iraq
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September 7, 2004: US forces are about to attack Tal Afar in North West Iraq. Journalists Scott Taylor and Zeynep Tugrul rush to the remote city to report from the frontline. But they are kidnapped by insurgents who think they're American spies. From then on their lives hang in the balance as the American military pound the City and the journalist face execution and torture and witness scenes few westerners have ever survived.
Tropical Terror
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After an injury, Greg Williams' happy life falls apart. He decides to volunteer as a missionary in the Philippines, but finds danger instead when he is kidnapped by a violent local group.
Busted And Pregnant
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Zara Whittaker, from a poverty-ridden housing project in South London, left behind her 8 month old baby, to go to Barbados and smuggle cocaine back. She never thought anything could go wrong - her partner in crime had done it 12 times before. Three days before the run, she found out she was pregnant, but she'd already spent too much of the drug dealers' money to pull out. Stopped by the police at the airport, Zara was given a five year prison sentence - she gave birth in Barbados, and, after three heartbreaking months, had to give the baby up.
Vacation To Hell
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Clare travels to India, but when money gets tight, she sends hash illegally to Europe in the mail. Her luck runs out and she ends up in one of the world's largest jails. Brendan and his friends live a nightclub lifestyle, hobnobbing with celebrities.
Conned In Quito
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In 2003, Zoe McGarry's life changed forever after a chance encounter with a man called Tony. She met him in Nigeria while visiting the country with her Nigerian husband Olu, and they soon all became close friends. Tony had family in London and Zoe and Olu invited him to stay in their house. But within months his personality started to change, he was no longer the happy, warm person they once knew. And then, one day, he just disappeared. A few months later, he called Zoe from Ecuador begging her for help to re-new his visa so he could return to the UK and make a fresh start. Eventually, Tony persuaded Zoe to visit him to help with his paperwork....
Jamaican Getaway
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TK White and her girlfriend are offered a vacation to Jamaica and $5,000 in return for bringing back marijuana. Without knowing that marijuana is illegal in Jamaica, the couple takes off, playing the tourist and enjoying the beach. After a few days, the women head back to the airport with suitcases that barely conceal the drug packages. They are caught, handcuffed and sent to Kingston's over-crowded, roach-infested Central Jail, where they end up defending their gay lifestyle to hostile Jamaicans. TK's family secures her release back home to New York after paying a lawyer, but now, the guilt-ridden TK must convince her girlfriend's grandmother...
Sierra Leone
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January 2000: Major Phil Ashby has joined the United Nations to disarm warring factions in Sierra Leone, West Africa. What he finds are bloodthirsty child soldiers controlled by a menacing rebel warlord. When some rebels turn in their weapons to Phil, the angry warlord goes on a violent rampage, and closes in on the UN team for revenge. Surrounded, outgunned and vastly outnumbered, Phil risks everything in a desperate 50-mile escape through rebel-controlled jungle.
Delhi
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In 1999, heartbroken Londoner Clare Matthews decides to travel to Goa, India. She loves it so much that when her money runs out, she overcomes her initial fears and hides 2 pounds of hashish in a statue, mailing it off to Europe to make some quick cash. But her party lifestyle spirals out of control, and she needs more money. She ships another parcel, and then another-but the third one doesn't reach Europe. The courier company says they've lost the address and ask her to go to the post office to pick up a fax. Desperate for money but suspecting a trap, Clare reluctantly picks up the fax. She's arrested and ends up spending years in one of Asia's...

Dumped & Desperate
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After Jeremy's girlfriend leaves him, taking their daughter, he turns to bodybuilding. He uses steroids purchased illegally in Mexico, printing counterfeit cash to buy them.
Dumped & Desperate
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After Jeremy's girlfriend leaves him, taking their daughter, he turns to bodybuilding. He uses steroids purchased illegally in Mexico, printing counterfeit cash to buy them.
Captive In Colombia
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A U.S. Navy sailor takes a gamble on cocaine smuggling to get out of debt, but his choices catch up with him when he is caught in Colombia.
Captive In Colombia
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A U.S. Navy sailor takes a gamble on cocaine smuggling to get out of debt, but his choices catch up with him when he is caught in Colombia.
Teen Traffickers
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A teenage drug courier is tricked into a more dangerous job than she bargained for in Bolivia.
Teen Traffickers
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A teenage drug courier is tricked into a more dangerous job than she bargained for in Bolivia.
Betrayed & Busted
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Kim Hood needs a break from life, so she joins a friend on a trip to Thailand to procure nail products for her new business. Hours before their return, the true nature of the trip is exposed.
Betrayed & Busted
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Kim Hood needs a break from life, so she joins a friend on a trip to Thailand to procure nail products for her new business. Hours before their return, the true nature of the trip is exposed.
Running Scared
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Dwight Worker decides to smuggle cocaine to America, concealed under a phony shoulder cast. But when he's busted in Mexico City and sent to the 'Black Palace' prison, his life becomes a living hell.
Running Scared
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Dwight Worker decides to smuggle cocaine to America, concealed under a phony shoulder cast. But when he's busted in Mexico City and sent to the 'Black Palace' prison, his life becomes a living hell.
Servants of Saddam
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Tom Lynch and his fellow contractors are imprisoned while trying to escape Iraq in 1990. In a notorious prison in Baghdad, they are forced to listen to fellow inmates being tortured to death.
Servants of Saddam
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Tom Lynch and his fellow contractors are imprisoned while trying to escape Iraq in 1990. In a notorious prison in Baghdad, they are forced to listen to fellow inmates being tortured to death.
Prisoners In Paradise
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A fantasy vacation in Mauritius turned into a seven-year nightmare when Brigene Young was busted for smuggling drugs hidden in her shoes. A pole dancer is forced at gunpoint to smuggle cocaine.
Prisoners In Paradise
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A fantasy vacation in Mauritius turned into a seven-year nightmare when Brigene Young was busted for smuggling drugs hidden in her shoes. A pole dancer is forced at gunpoint to smuggle cocaine.
Moms Behind Bars
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American mother Ruthie Lambert turns to drug trafficking to help make ends meet. She makes numerous trips smuggling cocaine out of Peru, until she is caught and locked up in a South American prison.
Moms Behind Bars
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American mother Ruthie Lambert turns to drug trafficking to help make ends meet. She makes numerous trips smuggling cocaine out of Peru, until she is caught and locked up in a South American prison.
Young Smugglers
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When British police learn of Pieter Tritton's drug empire, he is forced to go on the run, but he can't resist collecting one final shipment of cocaine.
Young Smugglers
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When British police learn of Pieter Tritton's drug empire, he is forced to go on the run, but he can't resist collecting one final shipment of cocaine.
Dads Gone Bad
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Young Scott Campbell travels to Pakistan to meet his nomadic father for a trip along the Silk Road; little does he know, his estranged dad is actually a cannabis smuggler with big plans.
Dads Gone Bad
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Young Scott Campbell travels to Pakistan to meet his nomadic father for a trip along the Silk Road; little does he know, his estranged dad is actually a cannabis smuggler with big plans.

Brazen Breakouts
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Incarcerated in a brutal Soviet prison camp in the 1970s for smuggling heroin, American Jerry must leave his friends behind to make a daring escape. Also in the '70s, five Americans imprisoned for smuggling marijuana desperately plan an escape, digging a tunnel through concrete with just a butter knife and rocks. With water and feces gushing through the floor, can they make it out alive?
Drug Desperados
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Desperate for money, South African Robert Pringle agrees to smuggle cocaine out of Peru. Forced by drug dealers to follow through after attempting to abandon the deal, he is caught and jailed, with few prospects for escape. English nursing student Lucy Wright also attempts to smuggle cocaine to pay her debts, but ends up facing 16 to 25 years in Argentina after being busted. She decides to jump bail, become a fugitive and flee across the border.
Dying For The Mob
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Australian teacher Tim Schrader gets caught up in a Thai drug syndicate while working in Bangkok. He is lured into smuggling heroin to L.A., but finds himself facing a life sentence when he is betrayed by another smuggler. In Maui, Eddie Padilla is living a bohemian paradise funded by drug smuggling. A drug run gone wrong in Peru leads to imprisonment in a jail nicknamed The House of the Devil, where he must escape or die trying.
Parents In Prison
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Struggling single mother Zara begins smuggling drugs only to discover she is pregnant again. After being apprehended, she must serve time and can only keep her son with her for his first three months. In Spokane, Washington, teenage street racer Rick Cedar is overwhelmed to find out his girlfriend is pregnant. Short on cash, he concocts a plan to scam people seeking to buy engines, but a buyer who catches on ends up leading him deeper into crime.
Partners In Crime
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Martial-arts expert and smuggler Chris Chance is caught in a police ambush, and must abandon his wife to spend years in a Spanish prison. Chance's training is the only way he can survive the violence he encounters daily in prison. In Jamaica, TK White and her girlfriend are funding their vacation by smuggling marijuana. Unaware that its illegal in Jamaica, the women are caught and must survive together in an overcrowded, pest-infested jail.
Prisoners of War
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Two incredible stories of American heroes: Vietnam prisoners of war Senator John McCain and Ernest Brace find a way to survive imprisonment together, forging a lifelong friendship. Then, the true story behind the award-winning movie Argo - the daring CIA rescue of six American diplomats during the Iranian hostage crisis.
Busted in Customs
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Mark Greening breaks the golden rule to never body-pack hash, and enhanced airport security for soccer's World Cup in Tokyo gets him busted. When Irish plumber Paul Keany's business falls apart, he's desperate to keep his life and family afloat and agrees to smuggle cocaine from Venezuela back to Dublin for a quick payout. But when he's caught at the airport in Caracas, it turns into the worst decision of his life.
Bad Hombres
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An American kid from El Paso drops out of high school and tries to make easy money by smuggling marijuana for some drug-running brothers from Mexico. Another Texan hitchhikes across the border, where he meets a tourist from Houston while selling marijuana. Their deal goes awry when police arrive and the Americans end up in a shootout.
Love is a Drug
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Chris Parnell spends 11 years apart from his wife in a Bali prison nightmare after being convicted of smuggling hashish. Determined to escape and find his family, he pretends to go crazy. Struggling musician David Evans agrees to smuggle cocaine from Venezuela to Europe. He doesn't tell his girlfriend and partner, Julie, who plans to meet him in Europe for a concert tour. When he's caught and thrown in prison, he loses more than his freedom.
Caught in the Crossfire
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Major Phil Ashby is on a UN peacekeeping mission in Sierra Leone when an incident sparks nationwide fighting. Unarmed and fearing for his life, he decides his only chance for survival is to make a daring escape through the jungle. Two freelance journalists travel to war-torn Somalia, but the price to tell their story will be more than a year in captivity after they are kidnapped by a criminal gang. If their ransom isn't paid, they’ll be killed.

Prison Nightmares (Compilation)
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Banged Up Abroad: Prison Nightmares recounts some of the worst prison stays experienced by travelers who found themselves on the wrong side of the law far from home. When Dwight Worker tries to bring cocaine into the U.S. he ends up in the "Black Palace" in Mexico fighting for his life.