Mar 2007 - present
7.4
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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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S12 Ep5
10.0
23rd Jan 2019
Champion skier Nick Brewer gets involved in a multi-million dollar cocaine empire in Argentina.
S12 Ep4
10.0
16th Jan 2019
In Mexico, Carlos Quijas is falsely imprisoned and tortured for drug smuggling. Inside Mexico's most dangerous prison, he has to get tough to survive.
S4 Ep13
8.8
19th Aug 2009
Clare Matthews quits her job and travels to India. But when money gets tight, she gambles for a quick payout: sending hash illegally to London via parcel. It works the first time, even the second. But the third time, her luck runs out and she ends up in one of the world's largest jails.
S4 Ep12
8.8
11th Aug 2009
T.K. White and her girlfriend are sent to Kingston's notorious central prison after attempting to smuggle marijuana.
S2 Ep5
8.8
26th May 2008
Safari guide Mark Ross and his tour group are kidnapped by Hutu rebels in Uganda.
S6 Ep4
8.8
25th Oct 2011
After heading to Mexico with a suitcase of fake money to buy drugs, California bodybuilder Jeremy Khinoo finds himself behind bars and in big trouble.
S3 Ep3
8.8
28th Jul 2008
Scott White is arrested in Kuwait for selling hashish, then escapes from jail during the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
S2 Ep9
8.8
6th Oct 2008
While vacationing in Malaysia, Monique and Callie Strydom are kidnapped by a Muslim militant group and held hostage for four months in the Philippines.
S4 Ep8
8.7
15th Jun 2009
Journalists Scott Taylor and Zeynep Tugrul are kidnapped by insurgents who accuse them of being American spies.
S6 Ep10
8.7
6th Dec 2011
Military veteran Kim Hood faces life behind bars in a squalid Thai prison after being caught smuggling 14 kilos of heroin with a friend, Lisa Taylor.
S3 Ep7
8.7
27th Oct 2008
An American, Daniel Van De Zande is arrested trying to smuggle cocaine from Ecuador to Europe.
S6 Ep8
8.6
22nd Nov 2011
Company director Robert Pringle is sentenced to seven years in a violent South-American lock-up after being pressured by his dealer to smuggle drugs.
S10 Ep3
8.5
20th Jun 2016
Tabitha 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.
S9 Ep1
8.5
17th Apr 2013
As the longest POW in Vietnam, Ernie Brace likely endured more than any other POW during the war. After years in the jungle, he went to the infamous 'Hanoi Hilton' prison and heard an American voice: Lt. Cmdr. John McCain.
S5 Ep4
8.5
21st Jul 2010
A 28-year-old English teacher named Tim Schrader agrees to smuggle eight kilos of heroin into the U.S. to solve his financial problems. Although he knows he could receive the death penalty, the money is too tempting to resist.
S5 Ep1
8.5
30th Jun 2010
In intimate detail, Locked Up Abroad reveals Billy Hayes' real-life experience behind the Oscar-winning 1978 film, "Midnight Express."
S6 Ep9
8.5
29th Nov 2011
Vivian Carrasquillo faces a crash diet in jail after an attempt to raise funds for gastric bypass surgery by becoming a drug mule backfires.
S8 Ep9
8.4
28th Nov 2012
The terrifying story of photojournalist Nigel Brennan and reporter Amanda Lindhout, who are held hostage for 15 months by a criminal gang in Somalia.
S4 Ep1
8.4
8th Apr 2009
David Evans is arrested trying to smuggle drugs from Venezuela to Amsterdam.
S3 Ep6
8.4
13th Oct 2008
Taiwan's most-wanted criminal breaks into the house of McGill Alexander, a South African army colonel, and takes Alexander and his family hostage.
S4 Ep10
8.4
29th Jul 2009
An unsuspecting woman, Zoe McGarry, is given a suitcase full of cocaine and is arrested when attempting to board a plane with it.
S14 Ep10
8.3
4th Nov 2021
A troubled young father goes on the run to Spain to avoid a small prison sentence. He starts working for a crime gang in the Costa Del Sol and is enamored by the gangster lifestyle. He feels untouchable and agrees to smuggle and swallow a kilo of cocaine back from Peru, only to face the biggest adrenalin kick of his life and seal his fate forever.
S5 Ep3
8.3
14th Jul 2010
After accepting an offer to work as a hostess in Japan, Jackie Nichols meets a charming Israeli drug smuggler and agrees to smuggle hashish with him. She gets away with it four times, but the fifth time, she's not so lucky.
S15 Ep6
8.3
9th Nov 2022
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.
S5 Ep5
8.3
28th Jul 2010
With his girlfriend pregnant, American musician Michael Morey needs money and agrees to smuggle cocaine from Quito to Spain. He barely makes it through Ecuadorian customs, but when he lands and goes through Spanish customs, he's not so lucky.
S9 Ep2
8.3
24th Apr 2013
Shaun Attwood left England to be a stockbroker in America and finds himself dealing ecstasy.
S4 Ep7
8.3
3rd Jun 2009
When Kahlilah met big-shot music producer Roy, she didn't expect that her life would change forever. Just months into their relationship, Roy forced her to smuggle 18 pounds of cocaine.
S2 Ep7
8.3
9th Jun 2008
Rhys Partridge and Béla Nuss are kidnapped by British terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh while travelling in India.
S7 Ep2
8.2
2nd May 2012
Travelling magician Mark Greening juggles a young family with a budding hash-smuggling business after moving to Japan, but he soon gets caught.
S7 Ep5
8.2
23rd May 2012
Dwight Worker is busted in Mexico for smuggling coke and attempts a daring escape from one of the country's most notorious prison.
S12 Ep1
8.2
2nd Jan 2019
Jimmy gives up his job as a postman to open a bar in Thailand, but quickly starts dealing meth. The police get wise and in a dramatic takedown bust him and send him to prison.
S5 Ep6
8.1
4th Aug 2010
A jungle adventure turns sour when American backpacker Mark Wedeven and his travel companions are taken hostage by armed guerilla soldiers in Panama.
S2 Ep4
8.1
25th Sep 2007
The Colombian National Liberation Army kidnaps American adventurer Glen Heggstad.
S4 Ep11
8.1
5th Aug 2009
During a U.N. peace mission, a minor incident sparks nationwide fighting, leading Major Phil Ashby to flee his disarmament camp and chance survival in a daring escape through the jungle.
S7 Ep3
8.1
9th May 2012
Lucy 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.
S6 Ep1
8.1
4th Oct 2011
Henry Hill--who inspired the movie Goodfellas--relays the true story of his rise and fall as a drug dealing wiseguy in the New York mob.
S15 Ep5
8.0
2nd Nov 2022
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.
S13 Ep1
8.0
1st Jan 2020
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.
S12 Ep6
8.0
30th Jan 2019
Hip hop dancer LaTasha thinks she's been offered the opportunity of a lifetime, but opportunity turns to nightmare when she finds herself locked up and pregnant in a Thai jail, having been fooled into smuggling heroin by a man she thought she loved.
S11 Ep1
8.0
4th Jan 2018
The story of convicted drug dealer Pieter Tritton, whose organization used camping tents to smuggle cocaine from Ecuador to Europe.
S13 Ep3
5.8
15th Jan 2020
Jimmy Bauer is on the cusp of breaking into the music industry and only one thing stands in his way. Money. He faces moral temptation and life-changing decisions, all as he works out what's more important to him. The fame? Or the music?
S3 Ep4
5.8
15th Sep 2008
Amardeep Bassey, a British journalist on the way to Afghanistan for an assignment, is accused of being a spy and arrested in Pakistan.
S15 Ep8
6.0
23rd Nov 2022
This installment details the true story of Boxing Billy Moore's struggle to survive inside Klong Prem Prison, the notorious "Bangkok Hilton". Billy Moore traveled to Thailand to escape a life of drug addiction and alcoholism. He managed to overcome his inner demons for awhile, but eventually relapsed after trying yaba, which is a highly addictive form of methamphetamine.
S11 Ep5
6.3
1st Feb 2018
Kidnapped by Al Qaeda, Matthew must decide to escape or stay with his fellow American prisoner.
S7 Ep8
6.4
13th Jun 2012
Erez Eltawil and Reini Weigel are among eight backpackers who are snatched by guerrillas during a trek in remote northern Colombia.
S13 Ep6
6.7
5th Feb 2020
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.
S15 Ep9
6.7
30th Nov 2022
Veteran British soldier Brett Leonard Makinson, a retired parachute regiment medic, heads to India to overcome his PTSD but is soon tempted into smuggling weed out of the Himalayas to various parts of Europe. Caught and jailed in India, he is tortured until he signs a blank piece of paper for the Indian authorities.
S15 Ep7
6.8
16th Nov 2022
David Harte is in his forties when his life collapses around him. He is tempted into the shady world of drug smuggling before being busted in Mauritius.
S10 Ep1
6.8
6th Jun 2016
In 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.
S7 Ep9
7.0
20th Jun 2012
David 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.
S9 Ep4
7.0
8th May 2013
For Roy Hallums, a routine trip to the office turned into the fight for his life. In 2004, the 20-year Navy veteran was working in Iraq when he was suddenly kidnapped.
S11 Ep2
7.0
11th Jan 2018
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 is in over her head.
S11 Ep6
7.0
8th Feb 2018
Lemar must survive one of Colombia’s most brutal prisons, after getting caught with cocaine.
S12 Ep2
7.0
9th Jan 2019
David embarks on an epic road trip, where he attempts to smuggle hash from Afghanistan to Germany. He is caught in Greece and imprisoned on an island.
S13 Ep5
7.0
29th Jan 2020
Stripper Garrain Jones hits the big-time when he stars in a Beyoncé video, but then loses it all when he gets caught smuggling heroin through Europe.
S13 Ep7
7.0
12th Feb 2020
Ice hockey star Ryan Phillips risks it all when he starts smuggling marijuana across the U.S. border, costing him his family, career and freedom.
S13 Ep10
7.0
4th Mar 2020
Miami mobster Tony Galeota is locked up in Panama after being framed for drug dealing and human trafficking. Can he prove his innocence and escape?
S15 Ep2
7.0
11th Oct 2022
As the Cartels, DEA and a terrifying hitman all close in, drug runner Chris Heifner turns informant to save his family and take down his best friend.
S15 Ep4
7.0
26th Oct 2022
After smuggling drugs for eighteen months, Anelda Mare decides to quit, only to be told her parents will be killed unless she makes one last run.
S15 Ep10
7.0
7th Dec 2022
This is the true story of Andrea Mohr from Germany. She was involved in international drug smuggling and other criminal activities such as organized crime. She organized numerous drug trades around the world. She served a prison sentence from 1999 to 2004 in the high-security prison for women in Australia, in the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
S8 Ep4
7.2
23rd Jul 2012
When Susan's Haglof's adoption goes wrong, she ends up in an Egyptian jail, facing a charge of human trafficking.
S9 Ep3
7.2
1st May 2013
Tom Crutchfield smuggled snakes, tarantulas and king cobras around the world. But when the U.S. builds a case against him, Tom escapes to Belize. There, authorities imprison him without electricity or plumbing.
S11 Ep4
7.2
25th Jan 2018
When smuggling marijuana was interrupted, Steve faced time behind bars unless he could escape.
S4 Ep3
7.2
22nd Apr 2009
Jake Libbon gets arrested in Mexico for selling marijuana, then is falsely accused of shooting two police officers.
S1 Ep1
7.2
31st Mar 2007
Scott Campbell and Lucy Baker are British travellers arrested in Mexico.
S2 Ep8
7.3
21st Jul 2008
Gracia and Martin Burnham, Christian missionaries in the Philippines, are kidnapped by members of Abu Sayyaf, a Muslim fundamentalist group.
S10 Ep5
7.3
4th Jul 2016
Captured by Gaddafi's men while fighting with rebels in Libya, Baltimore-born Matthew VanDyke spent nearly six months in solitary confinement.
S14 Ep6
7.3
7th Oct 2021
In this series we meet American, David, who was on a drug smuggling road trip from Afghanistan to Germany with his friend, Tom, when they were caught on the Turkish/Greek border and imprisoned in Greece.
S8 Ep5
7.3
30th Jul 2012
The gripping story of Tom Hanway, who flees a Chilean prison with a fellow prisoner, taking a dangerous and fatal escape route across the desert.
S9 Ep10
7.3
12th Jun 2013
When British 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.
S12 Ep8
7.3
13th Feb 2019
Party girl Christina spirals into addiction but sees a way out through drug smuggling.
S13 Ep8
7.3
19th Feb 2020
When the plan to smuggle marijuana from Mexico into the U.S. was interrupted, Steve Peterson faced time behind bars…unless he could find a way to escape.
S13 Ep9
7.3
26th Feb 2020
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.
S8 Ep1
7.4
2nd Jul 2012
Scott Campbell goes travelling in China with his estranged father, only to find out that his dad is a professional smuggler carrying 20 kilos of cannabis.
S15 Ep1
7.4
5th Oct 2022
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.
S14 Ep9
7.4
28th Oct 2021
A 70s hippie and his naive pal are small time dealers selling hash to Boston college kids, until they get approached by a Colombian cartel keen to use their skills. Seduced by the danger and the dollars, they soon become multimillionaire importers, shipping tens of tons of marijuana on freighters up the West Coast, until one of the biggest busts in US history forces them on the run to Bolivia.
S2 Ep3
7.4
12th Sep 2007
Piers Hernu, a dual British-French traveller, is arrested trying to smuggle 28 kilos of gold bullion from Hong Kong to Nepal.
S6 Ep5
7.4
1st Nov 2011
After being caught with a kilo of heroin in Mauritius, Brigene Young faces 45 years in jail unless she can help catch the drug traffickers. Young eventually served 7 years in prison.
S15 Ep3
7.4
12th Oct 2022
Travel-loving Bronwyn Atherton finds herself on the road to destruction when she is lured into the shady world of international drug smuggling.
S3 Ep2
7.4
21st Jul 2008
Lia McCord, an American teenager, is arrested in Bangladesh for trying to smuggle heroin.
S1 Ep1
7.2
31st Mar 2007
Scott Campbell and Lucy Baker are British travellers arrested in Mexico.
S1 Ep2
7.7
7th Apr 2007
Mark Knowles is arrested in Sydney after attempting to smuggle cocaine from the U.S. to Australia.
S1 Ep3
7.8
14th Apr 2007
Donald McNeil, a yachtsman, is arrested after being pressured to collect an enormous shipment of cocaine worth 30 million pounds (more than $43.2 million in U.S. dollars).
S1 Ep4
8.0
21st Apr 2007
Sandra Gregory is arrested in Thailand trying to smuggle heroin into Japan.
