Bart Layton
Director
Banged Up Abroad (2007)
Season 15
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
S15E1 - Narco Neverland
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.
Oct. 5, 2022, midnight
S15E2 - Declassified: Double Cross Dope Deal
As the Cartels, DEA and a terrifying hitman all close in, drug runner Chris Heifner turns informant to save his family and take down his best friend.
Oct. 11, 2022, midnight
S15E3 - Trauma Express
Travel-loving Bronwyn Atherton finds herself on the road to destruction when she is lured into the shady world of international drug smuggling.
Oct. 12, 2022, midnight
S15E4 - Love Behind Bars
After smuggling drugs for eighteen months, Anelda Mare decides to quit, only to be told her parents will be killed unless she makes one last run.
Oct. 26, 2022, midnight
S15E5 - Big Trouble in Tokyo
Steven Beattie's Thai party lifestyle isn't cheap. He smuggles hash to fund it, but pays the ultimate price when he's locked up in Japan.
Nov. 2, 2022, midnight
S15E6 - Declassified: A King's Ransom
Rafael Arguelles is a gangster by the age of 17 but faces life-threatening consequences after going undercover for the FBI against his former friends.
Nov. 9, 2022, midnight
S15E7 - Sole Smuggler
David Harte is in his forties when his life collapses around him. He is tempted into the shady world of drug smuggling before being busted in Mauritius.
Nov. 16, 2022, midnight
S15E8 - Fighting Yaba
This installment details the true story of Boxing Billy Moore's struggle to survive inside Klong Prem Prison, the notorious "Bangkok Hilton". Billy Moore traveled to Thailand to escape a life of drug addiction and alcoholism. He managed to overcome his inner demons for awhile, but eventually relapsed after trying yaba, which is a highly addictive form of methamphetamine.
Nov. 23, 2022, midnight
S15E9 - Casualty of War
Veteran British soldier Brett Leonard Makinson, a retired parachute regiment medic, heads to India to overcome his PTSD but is soon tempted into smuggling weed out of the Himalayas to various parts of Europe. Caught and jailed in India, he is tortured until he signs a blank piece of paper for the Indian authorities.
Nov. 30, 2022, midnight
S15E10 - Dame of Cocaine
This is the true story of Andrea Mohr from Germany. She was involved in international drug smuggling and other criminal activities such as organized crime. She organized numerous drug trades around the world. She served a prison sentence from 1999 to 2004 in the high-security prison for women in Australia, in the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Dec. 7, 2022, midnight
National Geographic Channel
44 min/ep
5930 min
March 31, 2007
Dec. 7, 2022, midnight
Returning Series
TV-14
14+
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