Mon, Aug 3, 2020
South African couple Debbie Calitz and Bruno Pelizzari decided to follow their dreams and sail the world. After a stop in Tanzania and getting robbed of all their money and supplies, they accept an offer from a wealthy businessman that they hope will get them home. What follows is 20 months of imprisonment, and the ultimate test of endurance and their love.
Mon, Aug 10, 2020
Samuel Leibowitz lived a cloistered life in his religious community until he was lured into the dangerous underworld of drug smuggling. Samuel quickly rises through the ranks and become a major drug kingpin in Brazil. A devastating event throws his world for a loop, but it's still not enough for him to walk away.
Mon, Aug 17, 2020
Scott Campbell joins his estranged father, Lockie, on a trip through China on the Silk Road, hoping to reconnect. He soon discovers that Lockie intended for Scott to be his partner in taking 20 kilos of illicit drugs into the country. An unexpected turn brings their relationship to a new level in the end.
Mon, Aug 24, 2020
In the 1970s, Chicago Outfit enforcer Frank Cullotta led one of the largest organized crime syndicates in the U.S. In 1978, FBI agent Dennis Arnoldy led the investigation that eventually brought Frank down. In this story, Frank shares secrets from his life in the mob and the jewelry heist that brought it all to an end.
Mon, Sep 7, 2020
Canadian war correspondent Scott Taylor covered Iraq for many years, frequently crossing paths with Turkish journalist Zeynep Tugrul. They entered dangerous territory, believing their history and contacts would keep them safe. They were captured, and their courage and bond kept them both alive.
Mon, Sep 14, 2020
In 2004, 20-year Navy veteran Roy Hallums was working as a contractor in Iraq. A routine trip to the office turned into a fight for his life when 20 armed Iraqi insurgents stormed the compound and took him and his colleagues hostage. He was sealed in an underground room. This is how he survived.
Mon, Sep 21, 2020
Jackie Nichols grew up in Los Angeles in the mid-1970s. While working at a nightclub in LA, she had a chance to work at a club in Japan. A vacation to nearby Nepal turned into a job smuggling hashish back into Tokyo. More jobs followed. Jackie was caught, and her trip back to freedom turned into a profound journey of self-discovery.
Mon, Oct 5, 2020
Zara Whitaker grew up in poverty in South London. When she gets pregnant at 18 she's desperate for a way to provide for her family. She's offered a trip to Barbados to smuggle drugs back to the UK. Once there, she finds out she's pregnant with her second child, but she's in too deep to get out now.
Mon, Oct 19, 2020
Mark Wedeven was adopted by an American couple when he was a baby. Upon graduating college he wanted to find his birth family, so he planned a trip to his native Colombia. He and his friends begin their journey through Colombia, ignoring all warnings, which lead to harrowing consequences that Mark can't help but feel responsible for.
Mon, Nov 2, 2020
Ruthie Lambert was deep in the abyss of a midlife crisis, debt and foreclosure on her home when friends suggest that she can make a quick $10,000 by bringing drugs back from Peru. The appeal of easy money brings her back again and again. After a few successful jobs she decides it's time to get out, but agrees to one more trip, where her luck finally runs out.
Mon, Nov 9, 2020
Stephen Comiskey takes his dream job as a nurse in Saudi Arabia. He doesn't realize that, as a gay man, he risks execution if he's discovered. After eight months, he's lonely and strikes up a relationship with a British man there. When it ends, he's dating again. This time he gets involved with a Saudi man, which has serious consequences.
Mon, Nov 16, 2020
Susan Haglof and her husband Medhat are desperate to be parents. The agency doesn't give them any official paperwork but the joys of parenting take over. When Susan wants to take the child, Marko, on a trip to the U.S. to visit her mother, she and Medhat are convicted of human trafficking and thrown in an Egyptian jail.
Mon, Nov 23, 2020
Tabitha Richie is juggling her last year of college and being a single mother. She lets loose one night, and tries cocaine. She's soon addicted and a shadow of her former self. She's desperate to change, and accepts an offer from friends to stay in Bogota and get clean. She's soon betrayed by the friends she thought she knew so well.
Mon, Nov 30, 2020
Australian teacher Tim Schrader goes to Bangkok to teach English. He loves his job but isn't making enough to pay for the lifestyle he enjoys. He takes a job smuggling heroin from Bangkok to the U.S, but he's set up, caught with more than a hundred times the amount that would garner a death sentence in Thailand.
Mon, Dec 7, 2020
23-year old Iraqi soldier Latif Yahia is summoned to meet with Saddam Hussein. He's a near-exact physical match for his son, Uday, who demands Latif become his body double. Latif is given no choice, and trains to walk, talk, and behave exactly like his new master. Latif knows his only chance at survival is a daring escape to freedom in Turkey.
Mon, Dec 14, 2020
Lucy Wright has her entire life pulled out from under her when her boyfriend of five years leaves. She turns to cocaine to ease her pain. Addicted, and desperate, she takes a job smuggling cocaine from Argentina to the UK. When things go completely awry, Lucy ends up a fugitive running from the law in Buenos Aires.
Mon, Jul 20, 2020
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. It proves to be too little too late when, one morning, there's a knock at the door, and his world turns upside down.
Mon, Jul 20, 2020
Scottish chef Gordon Malloch arrives in Saudi Arabia to start a new life as a catering manager but quickly finds himself a profitable side-line as a bootlegger. His homemade hooch makes him the toast of the ex-pat party scene. But when he is caught red-handed, he is sentenced by the religious police to nearly four years in prison and over 400 lashes.
Mon, Jul 20, 2020
El Paso, 1989: Alex Silva is a bored and disaffected teenager whose life is going nowhere fast. 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. What follows is a coming-of-age story, as torture, imprisonment, falling in love, and a jailbreak conspire to finally make Alex a man.
Mon, Jul 20, 2020
Kahlilah Saleem is a struggling single mother when she meets Roy, who sweeps her off her feet. He turns abusive, and controlling, making Kahlilah feel like a prisoner. He suggests a trip to Panama to rekindle their love, and Kahlilah says goodbye to her daughter, never thinking she won't see her again.
Mon, Jul 20, 2020
This special episode 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.