Hasidic King Of Coke
Series 8, Episode 1 Unrated
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Samuel Leibowitz comes from a strict, Hasidic orthodox Jewish community in London. Forced into an arranged marriage which quickly fails, Sam decides to start afresh in Antwerp, Belgium, and goes to work in the local Hasidic community as a greengrocer. A new friend offers Sam a free holiday in Brazil and on his return, he is asked to take a package back for his friend. It turns out to be cocaine. Sam has never heard of it, but is intrigued when he learns how much profit there is in drug dealing. He decides to get involved and his traditional clothing and hairstyle make him almost invisible to customs officers who assume he is strictly religious. Soon he emigrates to the heart of the business, Brazil, and finds himself working with another Hasidic Jew--the local kingpin, known only as the Godfather. Exporting hundreds of kilos of cocaine, the pair makes money—a lot of money. But other gangs in Sao Paulo put pressure on the enterprise, and while Sam embraces the high-life, escalating gang violence and an attempt on Sam’s life lead to the fracturing of the business... But before he can retire, young Sam is arrested and sent to one of the deadliest prisons in the world, Carandiru. Surrounded by chaos and evil, Sam manages to stay out of trouble until one day he is threatened with a knife...
My Dad the Smuggler
Series 8, Episode 2 Unrated
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Scott Campbell can’t wait to go traveling in China with his estranged father Lockie, and then he finds out his dad is secretly planning to smuggle 20 kilos of cannabis. When they’re arrested, dad Lockie is jailed but Scott is released with a bag containing some of the undiscovered cannabis. Incredibly, Scott risks all by continuing the smuggling mission to Tokyo in order to raise money to pay for his father’s lawyer.
Chilean Prison Break
Series 8, Episode 3 Unrated
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Californian Tom Hanway takes the hippie trail to South America where cocaine is cheap and available. He plans to take 500 hits of LSD with him and trade it for a kilo of coke which he’ll bring back to the States. But while doing the deal in Chile, Tom is caught and sentenced to five years and a day in prison. Tom decides that the only way he will survive is to escape with the help of a fellow prisoner, Chosco. But once they make it out of the jail Tom and Chosco are fugitives and are forced to flee the country on foot—a fatal journey through the desert which leaves Tom alone and on the run with the police drawing ever closer.
The Orchid Hunters
Series 8, Episode 4 Unrated
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Tom Hart Dyke is travelling through Central America in search of wild orchids. Paul Winder is in search of adventure. Together they attempt to cross from Panama to Colombia via the notoriously dangerous Darien Gap but are captured and held hostage by a revolutionary guerrilla group. With a $3 million dollar ransom placed on their heads they realize that their only chance of survival is to escape but any plans to make a dash for it are shattered when Tom discovers maggots have infested his leg. After a makeshift operation where the maggots are removed with a razor blade they are forced marched deep into the jungle. Angry at the lack of progress with the ransom the guerrillas lose patience and Paul and Tom worry they’ll be killed. But astonishingly nine months into the ordeal they are released. As they dash for freedom they make one final mistake and take the wrong path. Gradually they descend into a mire of swampland and over the next few days they become hungry lost and disorientated. They only have one option, to go back to their captors and ask for better directions but they had been warned that if they ever return they would have their heads blown off...
Venezuela Hustle
Series 8, Episode 5 Unrated
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When Irish plumber Paul Keany’s business falls apart, he’s desperate to try and keep his life and family afloat. After meeting a local drug dealer, Paul agrees to smuggle 6 kilos of cocaine from Venezuela back to Dublin for a payment of 10,000 pounds. However when Paul is caught at the airport in Caracas, it turns into the worst decision of his life.
Not Without My Baby
Series 8, Episode 6 Unrated
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All Susan Haglof ever wanted was to be a mother. By her forties, she thought she’d lost her chance, but then after moving to Egypt, she gets the opportunity to adopt Marko, shortly after his birth. It was love at first sight, but as soon as she had him in her arms, it became clear something wasn’t quite right with the adoption. Marko didn’t come with any papers; there was no proof that Susan was his adoptive mother. So she made the decision to get a birth certificate with her, and her husband’s name on it. What started as a small lie soon spun out of control, and less than a year into motherhood Susan was facing the possibility of being thrown into jail and separated from Marko forever.
Nightmare in Somalia
Series 8, Episode 7 Unrated
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In July 2008, Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan travels with Canadian reporter Amanda Lindhout to report on the war in Somalia. Little did he know that the price of telling the story would be more than a year in captivity.
Busted in Bangkok
Series 8, Episode 8 Unrated
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Angela Carnegie suspects her relationship is ending when her lover walks out on her one morning. She decides to start over by smuggling drugs from Bangkok, but the job is a bust when airport officials find bricks of heroin in the lining of her bag. After enduring jail time in a dungeon-like cell, Angela is sent to prison and must adapt to Thai traditions. Expecting a reduced sentence from 50 years in prison to four, Angela is shocked she receives a life sentence and nearly attempts suicide.
Escape from the Gulag
Series 8, Episode 9 Unrated
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It’s 1976 in Cold War Moscow, and American Jerry finds himself in the worst situation possible: busted for smuggling drugs from Kuala Lumpur to Russia. Jerry and his friends Darrel and Pete are caught at customs with unusually heavy suitcases laden with heroin, and end up incarcerated in a Soviet prison camp. But several years into his sentence, a miracle opportunity arises. Jerry escapes the prison camp while the electricity is out leaving his friends behind in pursuit of his freedom.
I Am Not a Terrorist
Series 8, Episode 10 Unrated
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Jobless Duane Wollum needs money to maintain his party life style and support his daughter. The lure of easy cash leads him to smuggle cocaine from Nicaragua into the US. At the airport, a routine security check reveals he is concealing a package on his body. Suddenly people around him are diving for cover. Duane is surrounded and looking down the barrel of several rifles.
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