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.
-
Episode 1 - Cuzco
Release Date: 2008-04-01Simon's trip to Peru is initiated by his friend Sarah Jackson who convinces him to smuggle drugs. Things turn bad for Simon when he is handed a lengthy prison sentence.
-
Episode 2 - Bangladesh
Release Date: 2008-07-21Lia McCord, an American teenager, is arrested in Bangladesh for trying to smuggle heroin.
-
Episode 3 - Kuwait
Release Date: 2008-07-28Scott White is arrested in Kuwait for selling hashish, then escapes from jail during the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
-
Episode 4 - Pakistan
Release Date: 2008-09-15Amardeep Bassey, a British journalist on the way to Afghanistan for an assignment, is accused of being a spy and arrested in Pakistan.
-
Episode 5 - Lima
Release Date: 2008-09-29Russell Thoresen, an American traveller, is arrested in Peru for trying to smuggle cocaine.
-
Episode 6 - Taiwan
Release Date: 2008-10-13Taiwan's most-wanted criminal breaks into the house of McGill Alexander, a South African army colonel, and takes Alexander and his family hostage.
-
Episode 7 - Ecuador
Release Date: 2008-10-27An American, Daniel Van De Zande is arrested trying to smuggle cocaine from Ecuador to Europe.
-
Episode 8 - South Korea
Release Date: 2008-10-29Cullen Thomas, working with his girlfriend "Rocket," is arrested trying to smuggle hashish from the Philippines to South Korea.