Bart Layton
Director
Banged Up Abroad (2007)
Season 5
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
S5E1 - The Real Midnight Express
In intimate detail, Locked Up Abroad reveals Billy Hayes' real-life experience behind the Oscar-winning 1978 film, "Midnight Express."
June 30, 2010, midnight
S5E2 - Saddam's Iraq
When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, Tom Lynch and his fellow contractor John White decided to get out of Iraq while they still could, but were captured by Iraqi soldiers and taken to a notorious prison in Baghdad, where they must listen to inmates being tortured to death.
July 7, 2010, midnight
S5E3 - Tokyo Takedown
After accepting an offer to work as a hostess in Japan, Jackie Nichols meets a charming Israeli drug smuggler and agrees to smuggle hashish with him. She gets away with it four times, but the fifth time, she's not so lucky.
July 14, 2010, midnight
S5E4 - Bangkok Underworld
A 28-year-old English teacher named Tim Schrader agrees to smuggle eight kilos of heroin into the U.S. to solve his financial problems. Although he knows he could receive the death penalty, the money is too tempting to resist.
July 21, 2010, midnight
S5E5 - Spain / Smuggler Makeover
With his girlfriend pregnant, American musician Michael Morey needs money and agrees to smuggle cocaine from Quito to Spain. He barely makes it through Ecuadorian customs, but when he lands and goes through Spanish customs, he's not so lucky.
July 28, 2010, midnight
S5E6 - Panama / Colombia Ambush
A jungle adventure turns sour when American backpacker Mark Wedeven and his travel companions are taken hostage by armed guerilla soldiers in Panama.
Aug. 4, 2010, 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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