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Banged Up Abroad

Season 8 2012
TV-14

  • 2012-07-02T04:00:00Z on National Geographic Channel
  • 50m
  • 7h 30m (10 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary, Crime, Reality
Terrifying tales of every traveler's worst fear - imprisonment abroad. From gruesome jails to chilling kidnappings, live through the panic, tears and desperation as each dreadful story unfolds.

10 episodes

Season Premiere

2012-07-02T04:00:00Z

8x01 My Dad the Smuggler

Season Premiere

8x01 My Dad the Smuggler

  • 2012-07-02T04:00:00Z45m

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.

2012-07-09T04:00:00Z

8x02 I Am Not a Terrorist

8x02 I Am Not a Terrorist

  • 2012-07-09T04:00:00Z45m

Duane Wollum is about to make some easy money smuggling cocaine, until an airport security check reveals that he is concealing a package.

2012-07-16T04:00:00Z

8x03 Hasidic King of Coke

8x03 Hasidic King of Coke

  • 2012-07-16T04:00:00Z45m

Orthodox Jew Samuel Leibowitz dreams of making millions as a drug kingpin in Brazil, leading to a terrifying term in the deadly Carandiru Penitentiary.

2012-07-23T04:00:00Z

8x04 Not Without My Baby

8x04 Not Without My Baby

  • 2012-07-23T04:00:00Z45m

When Susan's Haglof's adoption goes wrong, she ends up in an Egyptian jail, facing a charge of human trafficking.

2012-07-30T04:00:00Z

8x05 Chilean Prison Break

8x05 Chilean Prison Break

  • 2012-07-30T04:00:00Z45m

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.

2012-08-06T04:00:00Z

8x06 The Orchid Hunters

8x06 The Orchid Hunters

  • 2012-08-06T04:00:00Z45m

The shocking story of Tom Hart Dyke and Paul Winder, two British backpackers who are ambushed and held for ransom by a guerilla group while crossing the notoriously dangerous Darien Gap.

2012-08-13T04:00:00Z

8x07 Venezuela Hustle

8x07 Venezuela Hustle

  • 2012-08-13T04:00:00Z45m

Desperate to keep his family afloat, Paul Keany agrees to smuggle six kilos of cocaine from Venezuela back to Dublin, but it turns out to be the worst decision of his life.

2012-08-27T04:00:00Z

8x08 Busted in Bangkok

8x08 Busted in Bangkok

  • 2012-08-27T04:00:00Z45m

Thrown into a notorious Bangkok prison for attempting to smuggle heroin, Angela Carnegie has an epiphany while nursing a fellow inmate with a drug addiction.

2012-11-28T05:00:00Z

8x09 Nightmare in Somalia

8x09 Nightmare in Somalia

  • 2012-11-28T05:00:00Z45m

The terrifying story of photojournalist Nigel Brennan and reporter Amanda Lindhout, who are held hostage for 15 months by a criminal gang in Somalia.

Season Finale

2012-12-12T05:00:00Z

8x10 Escape From the Gulag

Season Finale

8x10 Escape From the Gulag

  • 2012-12-12T05:00:00Z45m

It's 1976 in Cold War Moscow, and American Jerry Amster finds himself in the worst situation possible: busted for smuggling drugs from Kuala Lumpur to Russia.

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