Episode 1
Narco Neverland
44m
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.
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Banged Up Abroad
2007TV-1415 seasons7.7 / 10
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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Synopsis
Documentary series where viewers are taken inside accounts of capture, incarceration, and terror far away from home with intimate personal interviews and dramatic reenactments.
Season 15 episodes
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Episode 2
Declassified: Double Cross Dope Deal
44m
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.
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Episode 3
Trauma Express
44m
Travel-loving Bronwyn Atherton finds herself on the road to destruction when she is lured into the shady world of international drug smuggling.
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Episode 4
Love Behind Bars
44m
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.
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Episode 5
Big Trouble in Tokyo
44m
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.
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Episode 6
Declassified: A King's Ransom
44m
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.
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Episode 7
Sole Smuggler
44m
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.
Episode credits
Guest stars Max Wrottesley
Episode 8
Fighting Yaba
44m
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.
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Episode 9
Casualty of War
44m
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.
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Episode 10
Dame of Cocaine
44mfinale
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.
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More about Banged Up Abroad
Cast
Alex AndreasTony Galeota
James TovellMajor Phil Ashby
Jonah RussellStephen Sutton
Ronan SummersRhett
John CumminsSimon Burke
Dean GoldblumJohn Alite (Teenager)Alice BirdNicky
Fumilayo Brown-OlatejuLatasha MadsonCredits
- Created by
- Bart Layton
Production details
- Status
- Returning Series
- Series type
- Documentary
- Episodes
- 132
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
National GeographicUnited Kingdom
5United Kingdom
RAWUnited Kingdom
Themes
incarceration
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