Banged Up Abroad
2007
📺 15 Seasons
🎬 132 Episodes
📅 Returning Series
🌐 EN
⏱️ 45 min/episode
DocumentaryCrimeReality
Documentary series where viewers are taken inside accounts of capture, incarceration, and terror far away from home with intimate personal interviews and dramatic reenactments.
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Seasons
Season 1
Scott Campbell and Lucy Baker are British travellers arrested in Mexico.
Season 2
Krista Barnes and Jennifer Davis are two American women arrested for trying to smuggle cocaine out of Peru.
Season 3
Simon's trip to Peru is initiated by his friend Sarah Jackson who convinces him to smuggle drugs. Things turn bad for Simon when he is handed a lengthy prison sentence.
Season 4
David Evans is arrested trying to smuggle drugs from Venezuela to Amsterdam.
Season 5
In intimate detail, Locked Up Abroad reveals Billy Hayes' real-life experience behind the Oscar-winning 1978 film, "Midnight Express."
Season 6
Henry Hill--who inspired the movie Goodfellas--relays the true story of his rise and fall as a drug dealing wiseguy in the New York mob.
Season 7
When young actor Erik Audé discovers that he was tricked into smuggling opium out of Pakistan, he must fight to stay alive and clear his name.
Season 8
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.
Season 9
As the longest POW in Vietnam, Ernie Brace likely endured more than any other POW during the war. After years in the jungle, he went to the infamous 'Hanoi Hilton' prison and heard an American voice: Lt. Cmdr. John McCain.
Season 10
In 1972 Jim PapRocki is flying nearly a ton of marijuana from Mexico to the U.S. He's forced to crash land, with Mexican police hot on his heels.
Season 11
The story of convicted drug dealer Pieter Tritton, whose organization used camping tents to smuggle cocaine from Ecuador to Europe.
Season 12
Jimmy gives up his job as a postman to open a bar in Thailand, but quickly starts dealing meth. The police get wise and in a dramatic takedown bust him and send him to prison.
Season 13
After his arrest, drug dealer Charles Falco is facing decades behind bars. Instead, he strikes a deal with the authorities and becomes a confidential informant - living a life undercover.
Season 14
When a DEA Agent goes after a notorious cartel boss, he gets sucked into a treacherous world where a fatal mistake destroys his life.
Season 15
To escape a life of poverty, a young Chicago gangster is drawn into smuggling drugs for a dangerous Mexican cartel, until the day it all goes wrong.
Network
National Geographic Channel, 5
Production
RAW
Keywords
incarceration