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The world's most notorious prison opens for business and Joseph Bowers plans his escape.
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Greatest Prison Escapes:...The world's most notorious prison opens for business and Joseph Bowers plans his escape.Alcatraz (02:54)
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Episode 6A group of inmates attempt a daring escape in 1941, by taking correctional officers hostage in the prison industries area.Alcatraz Webisodes (02:52)
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Greatest Prison Escapes:...Upon his arrival at Alcatraz, Doc Barker forms a new gang and begins plotting his escape.Alcatraz (03:06)
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Greatest Prison Escapes:...The most violent escape attempt at Alcatraz occurred in 1946. Three inmates and two officers lost their lives and 18 others were injured.Alcatraz (03:06)
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Episode 11One of the most famous attempts, which was later loosely depicted in the movie Escape From Alcatraz.Alcatraz Webisodes (02:58)
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Greatest Prison Escapes:...In 1945, inmate John Giles attempted a vary clever escape, using forged documents and a stolen uniform.Alcatraz (03:05)
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Greatest Prison Escapes:...The last attempted escape from Alcatraz occurred in December 1962, when two inmates, John Paul Scott and Darl Parker, crawled out a window in the prison kitchen.Alcatraz (03:06)
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Greatest Prison Escapes:...It was supposed to be escape proof, yet in 1938 three notorious bank robbers decide to take Alcatraz by force.Alcatraz (02:30)
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Greatest Prison Escapes:...During a 1943 escape attempt prison guards shoot at four men as they enter the water. Two surrender peacefully, two others die.Alcatraz (03:06)
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Greatest Prison Escapes:...It's a battle of man versus The Rock in 1937 as a kidnapper and bank robber join forces in order to plan their escape.Alcatraz (03:02)
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Greatest Prison Escapes:...The most violent escape attempt at Alcatraz occurred in 1946. Three inmates and two officers lost their lives and 18 others were injured.Alcatraz (03:06)
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- Episode 6
- Greatest Prison Escapes: Episode 4
- Greatest Prison Escapes: Episode 9
- Episode 11
- Greatest Prison Escapes: Episode 8
- Greatest Prison Escapes: Episode 12
- Greatest Prison Escapes: Episode 3
- Greatest Prison Escapes: Episode 7
- Greatest Prison Escapes: Convicts Join Forces, Escape The Rock
- Greatest Prison Escapes: Episode 9
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Go behind the walls of Alcatraz, "The Rock," and learn how a handful of men tempted fate and tried to escape from America's most famous penitentiary.
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