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 - From Hollywood to Hell
Release Date: 2012-04-25When young actor Erik Audé discovers that he was tricked into smuggling opium out of Pakistan, he must fight to stay alive and clear his name.
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Episode 2 - The Juggler Smuggler
Release Date: 2012-05-02Travelling magician Mark Greening juggles a young family with a budding hash-smuggling business after moving to Japan, but he soon gets caught.
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Episode 3 - Escape from Argentina
Release Date: 2012-05-09Lucy Wright is a nursing student when her life goes from bad to worse to hell. Her boyfriend leaves, she becomes addicted to crack, and the bills keep piling up.
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Episode 4 - Highway to Hell
Release Date: 2012-05-16Adventure-seeker Thomas Hamill takes a job driving trucks in Iraq, leading to a terrifying time in captivity after being kidnapped by insurgents.
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Episode 5 - Black Palace of Horrors
Release Date: 2012-05-23Dwight Worker is busted in Mexico for smuggling coke and attempts a daring escape from one of the country's most notorious prison.
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Episode 6 - Cocaine Mule Mom
Release Date: 2012-05-30Ruthie Lambert, a middle-aged mother of three, decides to smuggle drugs to make ends meet. She is imprisoned for years but eventually escapes by bribing a corrupt official.
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Episode 7 - Dangerous Liaisons
Release Date: 2012-06-06British nurse Stephen Comiskey, who takes a job in Saudi Arabia to support his family, draws the unwelcome attention of the Saudi religious police after a series of illicit gay affairs.
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Episode 8 - Colombian Kidnap
Release Date: 2012-06-13Erez Eltawil and Reini Weigel are among eight backpackers who are snatched by guerrillas during a trek in remote northern Colombia.
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Episode 9 - Caribbean Nightmare
Release Date: 2012-06-20David and Jayne Bladen's dream of a new life overseas turns into a nightmare journey of drug smuggling and violence culminating in 20 months behind bars.
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Episode 10 - Son of Saddam
Release Date: 2012-06-27Iraqi soldier Latif Yahia describes how he was summoned to Saddam Hussein's palace and forced to become the body double of the dictator's eldest and most notorious son, Uday.