Banged Up Abroad (2007)

Season 12

Documentary series where viewers are taken inside accounts of capture, incarceration, and terror far away from home with intimate personal interviews and dramatic reenactments.

Released March 31, 2007 Episode 44 min 14+

Genres: Crime, Documentary, Drama, Reality

Keywords: imdb.international-relations, imdb.smuggler, imdb.prison, imdb.drug, imdb.smuggling, imdb.border, imdb.interview + 7 more, imdb.customs, imdb.docudrama-drama, imdb.social-documentary, imdb.prisoner, imdb.foreigner, imdb.reenactment, tmdb.incarceration

Production Companies: RAW

Network: National Geographic Channel

Country: United Kingdom
Languages: English

IMDb

8.2

/2393/

Trakt

/93/

TMDb

/16/

Bart Layton
Director

Alex Andreas
Tony Galeota

James Tovell
Major Phil Ashby

Jonah Russell
Stephen Sutton

Ronan Summers
Rhett

John Cummins
Simon Burke

Dean Goldblum
John Alite (Teenager)

Alice Bird
Nicky

Fumilayo Brown-Olateju
Latasha Madson

S12E1 - Thailand/Thai Meth Bust

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.

Jan. 2, 2019, midnight

S12E2 - Greece/Greek Border Bust

David embarks on an epic road trip, where he attempts to smuggle hash from Afghanistan to Germany. He is caught in Greece and imprisoned on an island.

Jan. 9, 2019, midnight

S12E3 - Dominican Republic/Caribbean Coke King

Unemployed Michael Singh tries cocaine smuggling to make money. But after 7 successful runs, Michael is caught and left to rot in a Dominican prison.

Jan. 9, 2019, midnight

S12E4 - Mexico/Mexican Cartel Hell

In Mexico, Carlos Quijas is falsely imprisoned and tortured for drug smuggling. Inside Mexico's most dangerous prison, he has to get tough to survive.

Jan. 16, 2019, midnight

S12E5 - Argentina/Narco Wine Bust

Champion skier Nick Brewer gets involved in a multi-million dollar cocaine empire in Argentina.

Jan. 23, 2019, midnight

S12E6 - Thailand/Bangkok Betrayal

Hip hop dancer LaTasha thinks she's been offered the opportunity of a lifetime, but opportunity turns to nightmare when she finds herself locked up and pregnant in a Thai jail, having been fooled into smuggling heroin by a man she thought she loved.

Jan. 30, 2019, midnight

S12E7 - Colombia/Jungle Crash

On a mission to find drug labs in the Colombian jungle, Keith Stansell crashes. He's kidnapped by FARC guerrillas and held hostage for over five years.

Feb. 6, 2019, midnight