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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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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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Episode 1
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.
Guest stars Leigh Jones
Episode 2
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.
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Episode 3
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.
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Episode 4
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.
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Episode 5
Champion skier Nick Brewer gets involved in a multi-million dollar cocaine empire in Argentina.
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Episode 6
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.
Guest stars Fumilayo Brown-Olateju
Episode 7
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.
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Episode 8
Party girl Christina spirals into addiction but sees a way out through drug smuggling.
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Episode 9
Mark joins an ashram looking for enlightenment, but he finds himself locked up in India.
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Episode 10
Paris and Marlon travel to Peru for an exciting business opportunity—ending in the ultimate betrayal
Where to watch Banged Up AbroadEpisode information updated Sep 22, 2026
Jonah RussellStephen Sutton
Ronan SummersRhett
John CumminsSimon Burke
Dean GoldblumJohn Alite (Teenager)
Fumilayo Brown-OlatejuLatasha Madson
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