{"id":14470,"date":"2022-03-10T15:13:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T13:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=14470"},"modified":"2022-03-10T15:13:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T13:13:38","slug":"morgan-freeman-hosts-prison-break-series-on-history-channel-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2022\/03\/10\/morgan-freeman-hosts-prison-break-series-on-history-channel-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Freeman Hosts Prison Break Series On HISTORY Channel Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The HISTORY\u00ae Channel Africa (DStv 186) is bringing the world\u2019s most notorious prison breaks to life, in Great Escapes With Morgan Freeman <\/em>on Saturdays at 20h15, starting 26 March. <\/em>In the build-up to the premiere of the much-anticipated documentary series, the HISTORY\u00ae Channel Africa will also be screening7 individual3-minute locally produced pieces around some of Africa\u2019s Greatest Escapes.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Great Escapes With Morgan Freeman<\/em> is an eight-part series from the HISTORY\u00ae 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<\/em>, a film focusing on the exploits of a group of inmates inside the fictional Shawshank State Penitentiary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Great Escapes With Morgan Freeman<\/em>, he will explore real-life prison breaks that have captured the attention of the world. It\u2019s an up close and personal view of the prisoners\u2019 meticulous planning and their suspense-filled break outs. Famous escapes from Alcatraz, Dannemora, Pittsburgh State Penitentiary and other locations are recreated\u00a0with actors playing\u00a0key roles\u00a0and with interviews from some of the prisoners themselves, their families, their cell mates and\u00a0from\u00a0the guards and prison employees that tried to stop the\u00a0escapees in their tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve been inside the minds of prisoners in my acting career, and I\u2019m looking forward to stepping inside the most notorious prisons in the world, like Alcatraz, Sing Sing, Riker\u2019s Island and Leavenworth. Audiences will feel like they\u2019re making the escapes themselves as I walk them into a virtual world and through the greatest escapes in history,\u201d said Freeman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Africa also has its share of famous flights of freedom and the HISTORY\u00ae Channel Africa will be bringing these to life through local short-form content ahead of and during the premier run of Great Escapes With Morgan Freeman<\/em>. From escaping Robben Island to making an escape from the sinking Oceanos, the series starting 19 March will explore these and other legendary getaways on African soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Churchill\u2019s great escape in the Anglo Boer War is one such tale. A young Winston Churchill\u2019s made a daring escape from a Boer prisoner-of-war camp in 1899. With no map, no knowledge of the local languages and very little to eat he made it through enemy territory before catching a freight train to freedom in East Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another great African escape segment tells the story of Albie Sachs\u2019 miraculous escape from death in 1988, when a bomb placed by South African security agents exploded in his car. He lost an arm and the sight of one eye but went on to become a constitutional court judge. Justice Sachs was the chief architect of the post-apartheid constitution of 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tune in to the HISTORY\u00ae Channel Africa on DStv 186 every Saturday, starting 26 March, for dramatic recreations of daring escapes on Great Escapes With Morgan Freeman<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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