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• Pop Star Smuggler

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  Jimmy Bauer has been a singer since his teens and is a star in Latin America. Now the New Yorker's career is stalling, and he wants to break into America, but he needs to raise funds to promote himself. When an old acquaintance comes to him with a shocking proposition to swallow and smuggle heroin, Jimmy takes the gamble of a lifetime and agrees. It's a decision that will end in near death and life behind bars in the Dominican Republic.

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• Drug Runner Mom

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  Single mom Melanie Di Egidio is set up by her Colombian contact during her second drug run to Ecuador. Caught by the police she turns informer, promising to entrap the rest of the gang in return for her freedom. The sting works, the gang is arrested, but Melanie is imprisoned anyway. Sentenced to four years she is sent to a brutal mixed prison. Here Melanie falls in love and marries a fellow inmate before being released on appeal when she is seven months pregnant.a

• Model Drug Runner

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  Garrain Jones grows up poor in Missouri City, Texas. Chasing money and celebrity, he goes to L.A. and works as a stripper called Mr Fantasy. Overnight success finds him launching a modelling career and starring in a music video with Beyonce. For the first time in his life, he has it all - the money, the lifestyle, the status. But he soon loses everything when he is drawn into a shadowy European drug-smuggling operation from which he cannot escape.

• Korean Ecstasy King

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  Jesse Moskel is a born rebel. Raised in a strict Christian Cult in New York State, he breaks all the rules - drinking heavily and taking cocaine. But his addictions spiral out of control, and he escapes to South Korea to find work as a teacher. In Seoul, he meets a shady character with a ready supply of pure MDMA. Jesse soon becomes the kingpin of a huge international drug smuggling operation, and one of South East Asia's most wanted men.

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  Friday 14 May at 22:20 CAT

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• Undercover Biker

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  After his arrest, drug dealer Charles Falco is facing decades behind bars. Instead, he strikes a deal with the authorities and becomes a confidential informant - living a life undercover. For the first time ever, Charles Falco tells his story on camera of how he manages to infiltrate the Vagos, one of the most violent biker gangs in the US. It's a decision that will throw Falco into a deadly world of cat and mouse where every move could be his last.

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  Thursday 13 May at 22:10 CAT

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• Undercover Arms Dealer

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  When law-abiding arms dealer Peter Bleach is asked to supply weapons to a terrorist organisation, he agrees to go undercover for British Intelligence to prevent the massacre of innocent people. But for Peter to succeed in his mission, he must travel to the farthest reaches of India, risk his own and end up in prison where he uncovers an even bigger conspiracy where nothing is what it seems.

• King of Weed

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  Canadian Hockey Pro Ryan Phillips is destined to become a star. In his early teens, he's scouted to play in the junior league and turns professional a few years later. As Ryan climbs the ranks, he starts running a more profitable business alongside his hockey career - smuggling hundreds of pounds of marijuana from Canada into the US. The money Ryan makes from his hockey career cannot compete with the money he can earn in the 'bud game'. When his girlfriend gets pregnant, Ryan decides to turn his back on his hockey career and go full time into the 'bud business' with disastrous consequences. His girlfriend leaves him, taking their new-born daughter...

• Colombian Double Cross

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  Single mother Heather Ebling desperately needs a break, and when work colleague Danny invites her to Colombia, she jumps at the chance. But the trip soon turns sour and Heather must head to the airport disappointed. Then when drugs are found in Danny's luggage Heather is also arrested and sent to a notorious jail. There the ever-present threat of violence becomes too much to bear and she has a nervous breakdown. Now Heather realises she must fight to survive.

• Peruvian Prison Break

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  Tina Myers is an exotic dancer, and part time drug dealer hustling her way through life in downtown Orlando. When she gets the opportunity to make some serious money on a Peruvian drug run, Tina makes a decision that will put her very life on the line. She embarks on a dangerous ride to the dark side of Peru's underworld, culminating in an insane prison escape?with consequences.

• Miami Mobster Take Down

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  Miami mobster Tony Galeota is a strip club supremo. But when he opens a new club in Panama City, the competition isn't happy and frames him for drug dealing and human trafficking. Locked up in La Joya, one of the worst prisons in the world, Tony has to fight for his life, prove his innocence, and attempt an audacious escape from hell back to the United States of America.a

• Thai Meth Bust

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  Jimmy is a postman from Watford, England and hates his job. But then out of nowhere he is offered redundancy, meaning his dream to run a bar in Thailand can come true. The bar is a hit, but Jimmy quickly starts dealing meth, scaling his operation to sell 200 grams on a regular basis. In a dramatic takedown Jimmy is busted and sent straight to prison. Inside, violence is never far away and he has to do everything to survive, even losing three teeth in a prison fight. Jimmy serves four years and one month in prison. He is released in 2014.

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  Saturday 1 May at 22:15 CAT

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• 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: smuggling 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. Sentenced to 20 years they are imprisoned on an island fortress. After a torrid 4 years and one failed escape attempt on a motorcycle, David and Tom plot and executes a daring escape via boat, fleeing across Europe and back to the US.

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  Monday 3 May at 22:15 CAT

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• 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.

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• 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. Inside Mexico's most dangerous prison, he must transform from a law-abiding citizen into a prison gangster. As he is drawn further into the violent world of the criminal cartels, has he crushed his kind, loving side and turned from Jekyll into Hyde?

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• Narco Wine Bust

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  Champion skier Nick Brewer flees home and begins selling pills in the South of France. As he works his way up the ranks of a dark Mediterranean underworld, he's posted to Argentina for the job of his life. When it all goes wrong, he and his partner hatch an ingenious plan to smuggle 330 kilos of cocaine to Europe. It isn't long before they become kingpins of a multi-million dollar cocaine empire. But it soon comes crumbling down around them.

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• Bangkok Betrayal

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  Nineteen-year-old Latasha Madson, a dancer from Los Angeles, gets a once in a lifetime opportunity to dance in a club in Thailand. While there she falls in love with a man named Phillip, but the relationship turns into her worst nightmare. Caught with a stash of Phillip's heroin she is sent to Thailand's notorious 'Bangkok Hilton" prison. Latasha gives birth in prison, and serves eight years for a crime she didn't commit.

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• Jungle Crash

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  Keith Stansell is flying over the Colombian jungle on a US Government mission to locate hidden drug labs. Without warning, the plane's engine shuts down and the team are forced to crash-land. Keith and his crew are quickly surrounded by heavily armed FARC guerrillas. Two of the team are executed and Keith is taken hostage. For the next five and a half years, Keith endures back-breaking starvation marches, forced isolation, and torture.

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• Panamania

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  Canadian 21-year-old Christina Jocko is addicted to spending money, partying and taking drugs. But when she discovers opiates her life spirals into addiction. Out of work, out of money and out of luck - an offer of an easy $10,000 for running cocaine from Panama looks like a way out. But little does she realise the tempting adventure will cost her five years of her life.

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  Monday 10 May at 22:10 CAT

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• Indian Hash Bust

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  Australian hippy, Mark O'Brien is dissatisfied with life. He joins an ashram in India, lead by the infamous guru Osho, looking for enlightenment. But when a fellow disciple encourages Mark to join her in a plan to smuggle an exotic form of hash to Amsterdam, it sets of a chain of events that leads him to a very different commune; the notorious Yawanda Central Prison.

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• Peruvian Parent Trap

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  Texan cousins Paris and Marlon always fancied themselves as entrepreneurs. When Paris' dad offers them the opportunity to run a car wash in Lima, Peru, they jump at the chance. But Peru has a dark side and the boys have no idea their ambitions to make money are leading them into grave personal danger. Ahead of them lies incarceration, attempted murder and the ultimate family betrayal.

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• Breaking Bad In Britain

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  When British 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. Unaware that British Police have tipped off Ecuador's Narcotics Agents, a local SWAT team catch Pieter red handed with two kilograms of pure cocaine. Sentenced to 12 years, Pieter must find out fast if he's got what it takes to survive in one of the worlds' most violent and corrupt penal systems.

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• Mexican Border Bust

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  In 1974 Steve Peterson had fully embraced the laid back counter culture of Southern California, and when the opportunity to smuggle one hundred and twenty kilos of marijuana from Mexico into the US presented itself, he jumped at it. But when the plan was interrupted by Tijuana cops, Steve faced years behind bars in the infamous and deadly La Mesa penitentiary?? unless he can find a way to escape.

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• 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, the 19 year old Simone is in over her head. When she realises she's been double crossed into trafficking liquid cocaine, she must evade capture by the Bolivian Police, if she is to avoid the same fate as her mother."

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• 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. Ambushed by government backed militias, Phil knows it's only a matter of time before he's tortured and possibly killed. With all his communication devices destroyed he must get word to his producer and wife back home, but will she be able to save him?

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• 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. But on his way out of Aleppo he's kidnapped by Al Nusra Front, the Syrian Al Qaeda. Matthew is beaten and tortured, but when the opportunity to escape arises he is forced to face his toughest test yet, save himself or stay with his fellow American prisoner.

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• 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. When the Navy demotes him, Lemar's debts start to rack up until Dom offers him the opportunity to make some easy money smuggling cocaine from Colombia. Arrested at Bogota airport carrying five kilos hidden in a rucksack, Lemar must now survive one of Colombia's most brutal prisons, until salvation comes from the most unexpected quarter.

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• Plane Crash Marijuana

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  In 1972, 19 year old American Jim PapRocki has just graduated from college, married his childhood sweetheart and they are expecting their first child. If money wasn't so tight, life could not have been better. But when Jim is convinced by his brother-in-law, flying ace Chris Jury, to be his co-pilot on a drug run to Southern Mexico, Jim's financial prospects start to look up. For $20,000 cash, he will help Chris pick up nearly a ton of marijuana and fly it back to the US, a journey of 1700 miles. Jim is assured that nothing can go wrong, the bi-plane has been adapted so they can cover the distance without refuelling. All goes to plan, until on...

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• Thai Prison Hell

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  In 1993, 25-year-old Martin Garnett is already earning good money at a car dealership in Sydney, but he's hungry for more. When he agrees to body pack thirteen bags of Class A drugs from Thailand to Sydney for $200,000 in cash, his lifestyle is about to change dramatically…. but not in the way he hoped. At Bangkok airport, a security guard gives him a friendly pat on the back and he's immediately pulled over, stripped naked and discovered to be carrying 4.7 kilos of heroin - enough to receive the death penalty. Miraculously, Martin's sentence is reduced to 40 years because his court hearing falls on a Buddhist holiday. Now, he must learn to survive...

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• Bogota Belly Bust

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  In 2011, 28 year old Canadian Tabitha Richie decides it's time to straighten her life out. For the past two years she's struggled with drugs and alcohol, she has given up her dreams of becoming a social worker and is employed at a strip club, having handed over full time care of her young children to her mum. So when two friends, offer Tabitha a vacation in Colombia as an opportunity to get herself straightened out…. she jumps at the chance. What Tabitha Ritchie doesn't know is she's about to enter a world far darker and more terrifying than the one she's escaping.

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• Somali Pirate Hostage Hell

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  In 2009, South Africans Debbie Callitz and Bruno Pelizarri have sold everything to buy a yacht and pursue their dream of sailing to India. But after two months at sea their plans lie in tatters; all their money, tools and GPS have been stolen from the boat. So when they get the chance to crew another yacht back to South Africa for cash, they jump at it. Two days into the journey however, they are boarded by Somali Pirates and held at gunpoint. After two weeks at sea, the yacht is beached in Somalia and the couple are held captive in a small heavily guarded room for months. They are chained, beaten, sexually harassed and starved; and when after...

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• Jungle Terror

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  In July 2011, American schoolboy 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 fighting for an independent Islamic state. Over the next months, Kevin and his mom are held hostage deep in the jungle, in the southern tip of the islands. The terrorists demand millions of dollars for their release. Eventually, a ransom is paid but the terrorists only consider it enough to free Gerfa, and 14 year old Kevin is left to fend for himself until the opportunity to escape presents itself….

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• Qaddafi's American Prisoner

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  In February 2011, Matthew VanDyke is at home in Baltimore watching news coverage of the Libyan Arab Spring. Libya is a country he knows well, he has friends there and the footage disturbs him. So on the spur of the moment he decides to return and help the rebels fight against Qaddafi and his forces. He flies to Cairo, makes it across the Libyan border, and immediately gets to work collecting ammunition and weapons. But on a reconnaissance trip to the frontline, VanDyke and his unit are ambushed by Qaddafi's men. He is captured and eventually sent to the notorious Maktab Al Nasser Prison in Tripoli, where he's held in solitary confinement for nearly...

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• Mexican Prison Escape

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  In 1972, surfers Mike Cooke, Mace Stanley and their high school buddy are sailing down the west coast of Mexico looking for adventure. Seduced by an offer of $10,000 each, they get involved in a doomed venture to transport more than a ton of weed back to the states by yacht with two smugglers. After a shipwreck leaves them washed up on a deserted beach with their precious cargo floating in every direction, they wind up in a Mexican prison. Ever optimistic, it's not long before they hatch a plan to dig their way to freedom - even though the whole place is made of concrete. After torturous months of digging, and several disasters, they finally make...

• Raving Arizona

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  When Englishman Shaun turns to Ecstasy as a relief from the stresses of his new life as a stockbroker in Phoenix, Arizona, he soon finds himself seduced by the money and glamour of dealing the drug on an industrial scale. As the cash rolls in, Shaun lives the high life of parties, girls and fast cars. But when a local mafia boss takes offense, the door opens on a dark criminal underworld. Shaun goes back to being a stockbroker, but it proves to be too little too late when, one morning, there's a knock at the door, and his world turns upside down.

• Snakes On A Plane

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  Carpet salesman, Tom Crutchfield, fulfills a dream for adventure, world travel and reptiles by becoming one of America's biggest reptile smugglers with a worldwide operation. As undercover agents prepare to arrest him for illegally trading the world's rarest and most endangered species he flees to Belize to avoid prosecution. But he's arrested by the Belize authorities and held in a prison notorious for brutality.

• Hippy Mafia

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  When 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 across the border from Mexico to make money. But his hippie dream crumbles when Eddie falls in love with a beautiful coke addict. He soon needs to find a way of supporting her lifestyle. So he sets up a deal to smuggle cocaine from Peru-a decision that will land him in the notorious Lurigancho Prison. He's convinced his only chance of survival is to escape...

• Vietnam Pows: McCain & Brace

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  This incredible episode of hit series Locked Up Abroad tells the story of two pilots imprisoned during the Vietnam War, who ended up depending on each other for survival but who never met face-to-face during the war. One of them, Sen. John McCain, was a U.S. Navy pilot who was forced to eject during a strike over Hanoi only to be caught after landing in a lake. The other, Ernest Brace, was a civilian pilot who ended up being the longest serving civilian prisoner of the Vietnam War. Brace was marched for miles upon miles and imprisoned in a cage in the jungle. He makes several escape attempts but each time is recaptured and punished more severely...

• Vegas Mobster

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  In Las Vegas, mafia associate Frank Cullotta works for the notorious mob boss Tony Spilotro. For years Cullotta's burglary crew, the "Hole In The Wall Gang," run riot on the streets of Las Vegas, committing robberies and burglaries worth around $1.5 million dollars. But the FBI develops an informant on the inside of the gang. He helps them to pull off a spectacular sting operation catching the gang red handed on a $1-million-dollar jewelry burglary. The sting heralds the beginning of the end for organized crime in Las Vegas. Once captured the mafia puts a contract on Frank Cullotta's life and he decides to enter the Witness Protection Program....

• Buried Alive

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  When contractor Roy Hallums is kidnapped in Iraq his mind fast turns to his family. They have no idea he's there. Having taken a job providing support to the U.S. military, he's only too aware of the dangers and doesn't want them to worry. So when a masked gang storms his office, he knows his loved ones are about to discover the truth in the worst possible way. For the U.S. government, the race is on to locate where he is being held but with murder a regular occurrence among Iraq's kidnappers, Roy's ordeal looks likely to cost him his life.

• Fast, Furious and Busted

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  When hot-shot street racer Rick learns that his girlfriend is pregnant, he worries that he doesnt earn enough money to support a family. When his friend Jimmy offers him the chance to earn some cash stealing radios from cars, Rick is nervous but tempted. He goes along with Jimmy, as a lookout but soon he is breaking into cars himself. Fuelled by the thrill of easy money he steals again and again, moving his crime spree online. But when one of his victims threatens to kill him unless he returns the money, Rick is desperate. He resorts to organized car theft but is betrayed by his friend and ends up being busted.

• Hunting Mr. Nice

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  When 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. Attracted by the easy money and the thrill of being a smuggler, he is soon running a huge transatlantic operation and believes he is unstoppable. But when one of his loads is busted, Howard becomes a wanted man and goes on the run. Concealing his identity using a string of aliases he continues to smuggle for years, becoming one of the world's biggest traffickers of cannabis. He moves to a villa in Spain with his wife and two children. But when DEA Agent Craig Lovato tracks him down, Marks's empire begins...

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• The Real Argo

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  This special episode of the hit series Banged Up Abroad will tell the story behind the Oscar-winning movie Argo. Retired CIA officer and master of disguise, Antonio Mendez portrayed in the movie by Ben Affleck will tell the story of how, at the height of the Iranian hostage crisis he came up with an audacious plan to rescue six diplomats who had escaped the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Desperate for a cover story that would allow him to swoop into Iran and smuggle the diplomats out through the airport, Mendez hit upon a wild idea - pose as a Hollywood film crew. It sounded crazy, but as the only viable plan Mendez has little choice but to carry out...

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• Not Without My Baby

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  All Susan Haglof ever wanted was to be a mother. By her forties, she thought she'd lost her chance, but then after moving to Egypt, she gets the opportunity to adopt Marko, shortly after his birth. It was love at first sight, but as soon as she had him in her arms, it became clear something wasn't quite right with the adoption. Marko didn't come with any papers; there was no proof that Susan was his adoptive mother. So she made the decision to get a birth certificate with her, and her husband's name on it. What started as a small lie soon spun out of control, and less than a year into motherhood Susan was facing the possibility of being thrown...

• 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. When they're arrested, dad Lockie is jailed but Scott is released with a bag containing some of the undiscovered cannabis. Incredibly, Scott risks all by continuing the smuggling mission to Tokyo in order to raise money to pay for his father's lawyer.

• I Am Not A Terrorist

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  Jobless Duane Wollum needs money to maintain his party life style and support his daughter. The lure of easy cash leads him to smuggle cocaine from Nicaragua into the US. At the airport, a routine security check reveals he is concealing a package on his body. Suddenly people around him are diving for cover. Duane is surrounded and looking down the barrel of several rifles.

• Hasidic King of Coke

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  Samuel Leibowitz comes from a strict, Hasidic orthodox Jewish community in London. Forced into an arranged marriage which very quickly fails, Sam decides to start afresh in Antwerp, Belgium, and goes to work in the local Hasidic community as a greengrocer. A new friend offers Sam a free holiday in Brazil and on his return, he is asked to take a package back for his friend. It turns out to be cocaine. Sam has never heard of it, but is intrigued when he learns how much profit there is in drug dealing. He decides to get involved and his traditional clothing and hairstyle make him almost invisible to customs officers who assume he is strictly religious....

• Chilean Prison Break

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  Californian Tom Hanway takes the hippie trail to South America where cocaine is cheap and available. He plans to take 500 hits of LSD with him and trade it for a kilo of coke which hell bring back to the States. But while doing the deal in Chile, Tom is caught and sentenced to five years and a day in prison. Tom decides that the only way he will survive is to escape with the help of a fellow prisoner, Chosco. But once they make it out of the jail Tom and Chosco are fugitives and are forced to flee the country on foota fatal journey through the desert which leaves Tom alone and on the run with the police drawing ever closer.

• The Orchid Hunters

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  Tom Hart Dyke is travelling through Central America in search of wild orchids. Paul Winder is in search of adventure. Together they attempt to cross from Panama to Colombia via the notoriously dangerous Darien Gap but are captured and held hostage by a revolutionary guerrilla group. With a $3 million dollar ransom placed on their heads they realize that their only chance of survival is to escape but any plans to make a dash for it are shattered when Tom discovers maggots have infested his leg. After a makeshift operation where the maggots are removed with a razor blade they are forced marched deep into the jungle. Angry at the lack of progress...

• 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. On their way to record conditions in a refugee camp, Nigel and Amanda are kidnapped by a criminal gang. The ransom is set at $3 million; if it's not paid, they will be killed. While their families attempt to secure the money, Nigel and Amanda form a plan to escape after 5 months of captivity, eventually jerking themselves to freedom through a small bathroom window. After hitting the ground running, a Somalian child screams,...

• 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.

• 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.

• Cocaine Mule Mom

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  American mother Ruthie Lambert turns to drug trafficking to help make ends meet. She makes numerous successful trips smuggling cocaine out of Peru, until she is finally caught and locked up in a tough South American prison. Here Ruthie tragically discovers she has incurable cancer, and flees the country in a desperate attempt to see her family before she dies.

• Escape From Argentina

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  Student nurse Lucy Wright had a wonderful boyfriend and a promising career before she succumbed to a crack cocaine addiction. In a desperate attempt to clear her debts and get her life back on course, she agrees to smuggle two suitcases of cocaine out of Argentina. She's caught red handed at a Buenos Aires airport and told she's facing 16 to 25 years in jail. She's granted bail but when the police come to take her into custody she goes on the run. Making a daring escape that involves hopping buses, hitchhiking and swimming an international border, she manages to make her way back home to England where she turns herself in.

• Dangerous Liasions

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  British gay nurse Stephen Comiskey has had a difficult year. He's come out about his sexuality and left his wife and children. Needing to support his ex-wife and kids and get himself out of the red, he takes a well-paid nursing job in Saudi Arabia. When he discovers that homosexuality is punishable by death, he decides to be celibate. However, his resolve weakens when he sees that there is a thriving gay scene there. He embarks on a series of affairs and thinks he can get away with it until one night he is beaten up by the religious police and thrown into jail.

• The Juggler Smuggler

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  Party loving magician Mark Greening doesn't have a care in the world but when a holiday romance results in a pregnancy, he's forced to leave his beach bum lifestyle in Bali and take responsibility for his actions in Tokyo. With little work to be found he decides to become an independent mule, running hash from Nepal to Japan. But after a couple of easy runs his luck turns sour, leaving him with a five year sentence in one of the world's strictest prisons.

• 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. Here, Latif claims Saddam Hussein's eldest son Uday demanded Latif become his body double. Latif is almost an exact physical match for Uday, virtually his twin. He doesn't want the role, but Uday has him thrown in prison until Latif accepts he has no choice but to do as he is commanded. He severs all ties with family, friends and his previous identity, and is trained to walk, talk, and behave exactly like his new master. While the position has its perks, Latif has to witness Uday's evil behavior-rape, murder, torture-on a continual basis. Although Latif...

• From Hollywood To Hell

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  Actor Erik Aude is on top of the world with a promising career in Hollywood until his friend persuades him to go to Pakistan to pick up some leather goods. When he's arrested at the airport Erik discovers he has unknowingly been used by his friend to smuggle opium. Facing torture and beatings Erik has to fight to save his life and clear his name.

• Highway To Hell

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  Looking for adventure, Thomas Hamill takes a job as a civilian truck driver for the U.S. military in war-torn Iraq. When his convoy is attacked and he is taken hostage by insurgents, Thomas knows he could be killed at any moment. Will he find a way to survive captivity and make it home alive?

• Black Palace of Horrors

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  Dwight Worker tries to smuggle Peruvian cocaine to America, concealed under a phoney shoulder cast. But when hes busted in Mexico City and sent to the notorious Black Palace prison, his life becomes a living hell. After fighting off a gang of rapists, a near fatal stabbing in the stomach and a stint in the psychiatric ward, he vows to get out or die trying. Falling in love with a visitor gives him the opportunity hes been waiting for, and on his wedding day, he makes an audacious attempt to escape while dressed as a woman…

• Colombian Kidnap

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  Erez Eltawil and Reini Weigel are among eight backpackers who are snatched by guerrillas during a trek in remote northern Colombia. As weeks turn to months with no sign of release, the hostages become increasingly desperate and the group splits into two - each faction adopting a different survival strategy: cooperation with the kidnappers versus outright resistance. Both groups push their tactics to the limit: A defiant escape attempt is met with brutal retribution and the plan to cooperate leads to a controversial blurring of the distinction between victim and kidnapper.

• Caribbean Nightmare

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  Jayne Blaydon thought she had landed a dream job when she accepted an offer to teach lap dancing in a Caribbean nightclub. But soon after arriving in Guyana, she and her husband David were forced at gunpoint to smuggle multiple kilos of liquid cocaine back to England. They successfully get through two customs points before being arrested in Guadeloupe. Locked up in prison, David suffers physical attacks and is crippled before he and Jayne are finally released after almost two years.

• The Real Goodfella

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  Henry Hill, the inspiration for classic movie Goodfellas, tells the true story of his rise and fall in the New York mob. After becoming a gangster in his teens, Henry had it all: money, cars, women and respect. But when he was busted dealing dope against the orders of his boss, he turned from an invincible wiseguy into a mafia snitch with a price on his head. Going even further than the film, he reveals how another drugs bust whilst in the Witness Protection Programme almost cost him his life. As Henry says himself "20 years ago Martin Scorsese made a movie about my life... but there's a lot of stuff he left out!"

• Saudi Whisky Run

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  Scottish chef Gordon Malloch arrives in Saudi Arabia to start a new life as a catering manager but quickly finds himself a profitable sideline as a bootlegger. His homemade hooch makes him the toast of the ex-pat party scene - and when some fellow Europeans offer him a role in a whiskey smuggling operation he jumps at it. Demand for premium quality whiskey in the strictly teetotal Saudi Arabian kingdom brings Gordon to the attention of the ruling elite and Gordon is soon supplying a local prince and various members of his extended family. After a near fatal car crash in the desert Gordon decides to quit while he is ahead, and he plans one last...

• Prisoner of Love

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  British man David Scott couldn't have been happier when he met Cynthia, a pretty Filipino woman, on the internet. After a holiday together in the Philippines he's delighted when she becomes pregnant but their joy turns to despair when Cynthia's estranged husband starts making trouble. Under the Philippines' adultery laws he has them thrown in jail and the couple face up to 14 years in prison. Worse still, they discover under that their baby legally belongs to her ex-husband and it's up to him what he wants to do with her. With time and money running out they decide to go on the run and escape to Thailand. It's a risky plan. Cynthia is jumping...

• Mexico Money Machine

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  When Jeremy Khinoo loses his girlfriend and daughter, he escapes into a world where the size of your muscles means everything and steroids are a way to get there. With a group of guys from the gym, he goes to Mexico to buy illegal prescription drugs - and he pays for them with money he's made himself. The first two times, he gets away with it. But on his third trip, he gets caught spending his fake cash in a roadside store: a car chase ends with a police roadblock, and the drugs and counterfeit cash land him in jail. He's soon addicted to heroin, and before he's released, gets stabbed by another drug addict. Jeremy doesn't just lose his liberty-he...

• Heroin Sting

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  Brigene Young, a 20 year old barmaid from Johannesburg, is offered an all-expenses-paid trip to the paradise island of Mauritius. All she has to do is wear a special pair of high heels on the trip over there. But when she gets busted at customs with a kilo of heroin, she faces a possible 45-year jail sentence - unless she agrees to take part in a dangerous sting operation to catch the drug traffickers.

• Daredevil Drug Runner

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  Chris Chance and his wife Susan have their dream life in Spain running their own martial arts school-until their landlord doubles their rent. Desperate to stay afloat, Chris makes a decision that will change his life. He begins smuggling cannabis resin to England, concealing it in a rubber body suit. After his first few runs Chris becomes a full-fledged cannabis smuggler, addicted to the thrill. It's the start of a series of daredevil adventures on the roads, in the air and across the ocean that will eventually land him in prison.

• The Cocaine Trap

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  After months of hopeless job searching, Stephen Sutton believed his luck had changed when a businessman offered him $15,000 to transport "gold" from Argentina to Australia. But when the "gold" turns out to be cocaine, Stephen finds himself battling both tuberculosis and hostile inmates as he begins serving an 11-year prison sentence in Argentina.

• Drug Dealer Revenge

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  Loving father Robert Pringle is a successful Cape Town company director struggling to cope with a sudden corporate expansion. Exhausted, he begins using cocaine, and when his ex-wife leaves with his son to begin a new life in the Middle East, he spirals into addiction. After losing everything, Pringle goes to rehab, and emerges clean, but penniless and is introduced to a drug smuggler, who persuades him to bring a package of cocaine back from South America for $6,000. Pringle goes to Peru and is duly given a package to put in his suitcase. But he panics, and en route to Lima airport, dumps the drugs by the roadside. When he returns to South Africa...

• Teenage Drug Smuggler

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  18 year old Vivian Carrasquillo from Brooklyn, New York is overweight and desperately wants money for gastric bypass surgery. It seems her prayers are answered when she is offered $20,000 to be a drug mule. The task appears easy when she's assured the Colombian customs officials have been bribed. But things are not as they seem and instead she ends up on a crash diet in a terrifying tropical jail.

• Backstabbed In Thailand

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  Faced with an impending manslaughter trial, military veteran Kim Hood needs a break from life. When her girlfriend's cousin, Lisa Taylor, invites her to Thailand on a business trip to procure nail products for her new business, Kim jumps at the opportunity. But in Thailand Kim's suspicions are aroused when Lisa starts to become highly strung during telephone dealings with her nail product supplier. Hours before their return flight home, the true nature of Lisa's trip is finally exposed when the products delivered are not nail supplies but heroin. Kim decides she has no choice but to smuggle heroin in order to make it home in time for her manslaughter...

• 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...

• 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.

• 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...

• 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...

• 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.

• 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.

• 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...

• 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....

• 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...

• 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....

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 - only to be caught at a roadside store. Hippie Michael's girlfriend is pregnant, so he agrees to smuggle cocaine for extra money. After being busted in Madrid, he learns she lost the baby and is ending the relationship.

• 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. A student searching for his South American roots hikes from Panama to Colombia through dense jungle. After being taken hostage by guerrilla soldiers, his life is on the line.

• Teen Traffickers

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  A teenage drug courier is tricked into a more dangerous job than she bargained for in Bolivia. Another teen struggling with obesity is so desperate to get gastric bypass surgery that she agrees to smuggle drugs from Colombia.

• Betrayed & Busted

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  Military veteran 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 flight home, the true nature of the trip is finally exposed when the products delivered are not nail supplies but heroin. Actor Erik Aude is on the brink of stardom, but almost famous doesn't pay the bills. A friend offers him a free trip to Turkey and $800 to bring back leather goods. When the trip goes smoothly, Erik takes a similar trip to Pakistan. But this time, authorities discover opium in the lining of Erik's suitcase; a crime he didn't know he was committing.

• 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 notorious 'Black Palace' prison, his life becomes a living hell, and he vows to get out or die trying. Tom Hanway is arrested and assaulted by police in Chile for selling LSD. Anxious to escape the prison, he teams up with a former runaway, and they make an exhausting trek across the country to secure their freedom.

• 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. But their two-month-long nightmare was far from over. A few years earlier, Iraqi soldier Latif Yahia is imprisoned and forced to act as a body double for the notorious, violent son of Saddam Hussein.

• 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 from the Caribbean to England.

• Moms Behind Bars

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  American mother Ruthie Lambert turns to drug trafficking to help make ends meet. She makes numerous successful trips smuggling cocaine out of Peru, until she is finally caught and locked up in a tough South American prison. Less than a year into motherhood, Susan Haglof faces the possibility of jail time and being separated from her adopted son forever.

• 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. When Steve Peterson's plan to smuggle marijuana from Mexico into the U.S. is interrupted, he faces time behind bars.

• 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. Jobless Duane Wollum needs money to maintain his party lifestyle and support his daughter. The lure of easy cash leads him to smuggle cocaine from Nicaragua into the U.S. multiple times, until his concealed drugs are flagged at the airport as a suspected bomb.

• 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.