Real Prison Breaks

How the IRA masterminded a mass breakout from Maze Prison, Northern Ireland, in 1983, and how Lucy Dudko hijakced a helicopter to free her boyfriend from prison.

An Australian female warder falls in love with a prisoner and helps him escape, and the fugitive pair go on a shooting spree like a modern day Bonnie and Clyde.

Ronnie Biggs made a bold breakout from Wandsworth prison. The prison nurse, who fell in love with a prisoner and shot and killed a guard. 'Mad Dog' Cox, the only prisoner to escape from Sydney's Long Bay maximum security bunker.

Mecklenburg Correctional Facility's claims at being escape proof went up in flames the day six death row inmates broke out.

A previously unpublicised escape from Alcatraz; a criminal with a high IQ masterminds a breakout from a maximum security prison in New Zealand.

A prisoner escapes by fashioning dental floss into rope; gunmen ambush a prison van transporting a criminal.