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| Breakout | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Docudrama |
| Country of origin | Canada United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 16 |
| Production | |
| Producers | Jeremy Hall Rebecca North |
| Production location | Canada |
| Production companies | Raw TV Cream |
| Original release | |
| Network | Discovery Channel Canada National Geographic Channel ITV4 |
| Release | March 28, 2010 – March 23, 2013 |
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Breakout is a Canadian television series that aired on the National Geographic Channel throughout the world. It dramatizes real life prison breakouts. The series premiered on March 28, 2010, and aired its last episode on March 23, 2013. It was listed as a Canada/UK co-production.[1]
A number of different producers, writers, actors and other film professionals worked on different episodes.[2]
Episode 15, which featured the prison escape of South African political prisoners Tim Jenkin, Stephen Lee and Alex Moumbaris from Pretoria Central Prison in 1979, was shown in the United Kingdom on 19 April 2013.[3]
This escape was again dramatized in the feature-length film, Escape from Pretoria, starring Daniel Radcliffe.[4]
- ^ Breakout. YouTube (video). Tim Jenkin. 30 July 2013. 47:56 minutes in. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
- ^ "Breakout (2010-): Full cast and crew". IMdB. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
- ^ Parry, Tom (19 April 2013). "Pretoria Prison break: Amazing story of the daring men who escaped notorious apartheid regime jail". Mirror. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
- ^ Sutton, Malcolm (13 March 2019). "Adelaide transformed into apartheid-era Cape Town for Escape From Pretoria filming". Australian Broadcasting Corporation News. Retrieved 13 March 2019.