Banged Up Abroad (2007)
Documentary series where viewers are taken inside accounts of capture, incarceration, and terror far away from home with intimate personal interviews and dramatic reenactments.
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Episode 1 - Plane Crash Marijuana
Release Date: 2016-06-06In 1972 Jim PapRocki is flying nearly a ton of marijuana from Mexico to the U.S. He's forced to crash land, with Mexican police hot on his heels.
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Episode 2 - Thai Prison Hell
Release Date: 2016-06-13In 1993, 25-year-old Australian Martin Garnett is already earning good money at a luxury car dealership in Sydney, but he's hungry for more. He is caught smuggling 4.7 kilos of heroin into Bangkok and is set to become Australia's longest serving prisoner overseas.
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Episode 3 - Bogota Belly Bust
Release Date: 2016-06-20Tabitha Ritchie decides to fix her life after years of substance abuse and the loss of her children. But in Colombia she enters an even darker world.
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Episode 4 - Somali Pirate Hostage Hell
Release Date: 2016-06-27The shocking story of South African couple Debbie Calitz and Bruno Pelizzari, who were kidnapped by Somali pirates and held captive for 20 terrifying months.
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Episode 5 - Gadaffi's American Prisoner
Release Date: 2016-07-04Captured by Gaddafi's men while fighting with rebels in Libya, Baltimore-born Matthew VanDyke spent nearly six months in solitary confinement.
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Episode 6 - Jungle Terror
Release Date: 2016-07-11The traumatic story of an American schoolboy and his mother, who were kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf, a jihadist group, in the Philippines and held for ransom in the jungle.