The Great Escape The True Story

For 60 years American intelligence steadfastly refused to declassify the work of unit known simply as MIS-X. At last its extraordinary story can be told. The program reveals how MIS-X trained US pilots to send back coded messages if captured by the Germans, how the unit disguised maps, compasses, radios and even guns inside humanitarian parcels.

For 60 years American intelligence steadfastly refused to declassify the work of unit known simply as MIS-X. At last its extraordinary story can be told. The program reveals how MIS-X trained US pilots to send back coded messages if captured by the Germans, how the unit disguised maps, compasses, radios and even guns inside humanitarian parcels.

Winter, 1944. At the heart of Nazi Germany, 76 pilots – the British, the Canadians, the Norwegian and French, who were held in a prison camp of the Luftwaffe, escaped. The tunnel used for their flight was built in the greatest secrecy, under the nose of the German jailers. This historical epic, immortalised in 1963 by John Sturges’ movie ‘The Great Escape’ with Steve Mac Queen, went round the world. But the real story of these men overtakes by far the fiction imagined by Hollywood. Among the witnesses of this documentary is Jack Lyon, one of the last survivors of this adventure.

A team of engineers, archaeologists and serving RAF officers have an extraordinarily ambitious plan: to excavate for the first time ever the remains of 'Harry', the Great Escape tunnel.

The Racing Scene is 90 minutes of racing action that takes you into the pit, the driver's seat, on to the hazardous tracks at Sebring, Daytona, Limerock, St. Jovite and many more!

The Racing Scene is 90 minutes of racing action that takes you into the pit, the driver's seat, on to the hazardous tracks at Sebring, Daytona, Limerock, St. Jovite and many more!

Put a fence in front of these men… and they'll climb it! - In 1943, the Germans opened Stalag Luft III, a maximum-security prisoner-of-war camp

Former marine Monty Halls retraces the routes of great escapes from Nazi territory.

An insight into the criminal mind, this is a major series of the most extraordinary stories behind the greatest crimes and trials of the century. Serial killers, gangsters, assassins and war criminals - Great Crimes and Trials sheds light on 26 crimes that shocked the world, bringing back memories of some of the most notorious cases of the twentieth century.
True stories carefully researched and reconstructed with actual archive footage are all covered here in exacting detail, alongside other shocking stories of murder and mayhem.