Bold Breakout from Vietnam POW Camp | History's Greatest Escapes (S1)

A German American pilot, Dieter Dengler, uses survival skills honed as a child to escape a secret prison in Laos in the early years of the Vietnam war in this video from Season 2, Episode 2, "Vietnam POW Escape."

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Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman is an eight-part series from The HISTORY® Channel hosted and executive produced by Morgan Freeman. The five-time Academy Award nominee and one-time Academy Award-winning actor has appeared in hundreds of films and television roles. One of his most famous and beloved performances was in Shawshank Redemption, a film focusing on the exploits of a group of inmates inside the fictional Shawshank State Penitentiary.

In the series, Morgan will explore real-life prison breaks that have captured the attention of the public. It’s an up close and personal view of what the prisoners are faced with in executing their break outs. Famous escapes from Alcatraz, Dannemora, Pittsburgh State Penitentiary and other locations are recreated with actors playing KEY roles and interviews from some of the prisoners themselves, their families, their cell mates and from the guards and prison employees that tried to prevent the escapes. Along with the interviews and recreations, the series will utilizeS new software technology called Unreal Engine to recreate—with great verisimilitude—the prisons themselves.

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[lovingmayberry]

My dad and uncle served in Nam. My dad died young from Agent Orange and my uncle, a Navy pilot, was shot down and luckily survived a Viet Cong prison.
Bless all soldiers who serve.
❤️🇺🇸💙

[Kiss__Kiss]

Wow!! What a Hero!! Thanks, Morgan Freeman, for retelling this story.

[PercivalOropesa]

Thank you Mr. Morgan Freeman for telling His story.

[MitchBast-xujg]

Christian Bale starred in the film about this hero. It's called RESCUE DAWN.
Excellent film. Bale is awesome in it

[Warg]

Arlington National Cemetery is HUGE!~
Was there for the Changing of the Wreath & Guards during a Honor Flight as a Guardian.

[Anna-odn]

Very interesting to listen to, and memorable, I liked it, I’ll always be glad to watch.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[spenserkao]

Morgan's hoarse voice seems able to make his narration so authoritve.

[hensleyshobbies-doug]

Yeah the guy who got away from the Hanoi Hilton, yeah cool episode! My bad, I thought he was the one who escaped the Hanoi Hilton

[Wacky-Jacky]

This is nothing like the movie,
Rescue Dawn

[Uticagreens]

What happened to Ugene Labroun and Why Scea?

[qwertyuioppoiqwe]

The guy that stayed behind is a moron.

[mr.pradorobledo]

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[rustygolfer]

Why did they leave the weapons they took from the guards? Makes no sense.

[Snoozerboozer]

sadistic guards? torture? much like the guards in abu kabir and guantanamo then? poor intruders.

[xiomaraarias-zh]

The bad and the goods right? As they portray in the Netflix films What the F…

[theylied]

When I was a kid, the meanest people I ever met my life were Laotian.

[xiomaraarias-zh]

This channel now went to repeat and repeat the same history all over again in order to make sure that negative imprint perpetuates for ever in the mind of generations to come by

[Willislovoy]

Tell me the lord ain’t real glory to god for saving this man