When legitimate arms dealer Peter Bleach is asked to supply weapons for a suspected Indian terrorist cell, he agrees to go undercover for British Intelligence to capture the ringleader.

Undercover Arms Dealer

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.

Dame of Cocaine

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.

Big Trouble in Tokyo

Erez Eltawil and Reini Weigel are among eight backpackers who are snatched by guerrillas during a trek in remote northern Colombia.

Colombian Kidnap

Hear the real story behind the Academy Award-winning movie 'Argo' from those who inspired it. Locked Up Abroad sits down with Antonio Mendez, the CIA officer portrayed by Ben Affleck, along with former hostages.

The Real Argo

Champion skier Nick Brewer gets involved in a multi-million dollar cocaine empire in Argentina.

Argentina/Narco Wine Bust

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.

Dominican Republic/Caribbean Coke King

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.

Mexico/Mexican Cartel Hell

Struggling single mom Melanie Di Egidio risks all in exchange for a quick buck, but when the plan goes wrong Melanie is busted with 6 kilos of heroin, caught up in a high-profile sting, and sent to a tough Ecuadorian prison.

Drug Runner Mom

During a U.N. peace mission, a minor incident sparks nationwide fighting, leading Major Phil Ashby to flee his disarmament camp and chance survival in a daring escape through the jungle.

Sierra Leone/Jungle Siege

Iraqi soldier Latif Yahia describes how he was summoned to Saddam Hussein's palace and forced to become the body double of the dictator's eldest and most notorious son, Uday.

Son of Saddam

As the longest POW in Vietnam, Ernie Brace likely endured more than any other POW during the war. After years in the jungle, he went to the infamous 'Hanoi Hilton' prison and heard an American voice: Lt. Cmdr. John McCain.

Vietnam POWs: McCain and Brace

In 1993, 25-year-old Australian Martin Garnett is already earning good money at a luxury car dealership in Sydney, but he's hungry for more. He is caught smuggling 4.7 kilos of heroin into Bangkok and is set to become Australia's longest serving prisoner overseas.

Thai Prison Hell

Captured by Gaddafi's men while fighting with rebels in Libya, Baltimore-born Matthew VanDyke spent nearly six months in solitary confinement.

Gadaffi's American Prisoner

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.

Thailand/Bangkok Betrayal

A wild-living exotic dancer leaves the club scene of Florida to make a dangerous journey into Peru’s drugs underworld, culminating in an insane prison escape.

Peruvian Prison Break

Miami mobster Tony Galeota is locked up in Panama after being framed for drug dealing and human trafficking. Can he prove his innocence and escape?

Miami Mobster Take Down

When a DEA Agent goes after a notorious cartel boss, he gets sucked into a treacherous world where a fatal mistake destroys his life.

Declassified Mexican Cartel Takedown

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.

Fighting Yaba

Shaun Attwood left England to be a stockbroker in America and finds himself dealing ecstasy.

Raving Arizona

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.

Colombia/Jungle Crash

Mark joins an ashram looking for enlightenment, but he finds himself locked up in India.

Indian Hash Bust

In South Korea, English teacher Jesse Moskel becomes the kingpin of a huge MDMA smuggling operation - and one of Southeast Asia's most wanted men.

Korean Ecstasy King

A random encounter with a family friend at the Bali airport was all it took to land Chris Parnell in jail and arrested on charges of smuggling 12 kilos of hashish.

Indonesia/Busted In Bali

Dwight Worker is busted in Mexico for smuggling coke and attempts a daring escape from one of the country's most notorious prison.

Black Palace of Horrors

In 2012 Simone Blignaut has a lucrative job working for one of Johannesburg’s biggest drug dealers, but when her boss entrusts her to fly to Bolivia and secure a major cocaine deal, the 19-year-old is in over her head.

Narco at Nineteen

Kidnapped by Al Qaeda, Matthew must decide to escape or stay with his fellow American prisoner.

Escape From Al Qaeda

Piers Hernu, a dual British-French traveller, is arrested trying to smuggle 28 kilos of gold bullion from Hong Kong to Nepal.

Nepal (Piers' Story)

Church volunteer Greg Williams is kidnapped and tortured by members of Abu Sayyaf.

Kidnapped in the Philippines

Tabitha Ritchie decides to fix her life after years of substance abuse and the loss of her children. But in Colombia she enters an even darker world.

Bogota Belly Bust

Jimmy Bauer is on the cusp of breaking into the music industry and only one thing stands in his way. Money. He faces moral temptation and life-changing decisions, all as he works out what's more important to him. The fame? Or the music?

Pop Star Smuggler

When a lifelong gun runner and drug dealer infiltrates a blood thirsty biker gang for a million-dollar payout, he gets swept up in a horrific murder hit.

Declassified: A Rat’s Tale

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.

Love Behind Bars

Sandra Gregory is arrested in Thailand trying to smuggle heroin into Japan.

Thailand (The Sandra Gregory Story)

In intimate detail, Locked Up Abroad reveals Billy Hayes' real-life experience behind the Oscar-winning 1978 film, "Midnight Express."

The Real Midnight Express

Lucy Wright is a nursing student when her life goes from bad to worse to hell. Her boyfriend leaves, she becomes addicted to crack, and the bills keep piling up.

Escape from Argentina

Duane Wollum is about to make some easy money smuggling cocaine, until an airport security check reveals that he is concealing a package.

I Am Not a Terrorist

It's 1976 in Cold War Moscow, and American Jerry Amster finds himself in the worst situation possible: busted for smuggling drugs from Kuala Lumpur to Russia.

Escape From the Gulag

Party girl Christina spirals into addiction but sees a way out through drug smuggling.

Panamania

Paris and Marlon travel to Peru for an exciting business opportunity—ending in the ultimate betrayal

Peruvian Parent Trap

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.

Casualty of War

Lia McCord, an American teenager, is arrested in Bangladesh for trying to smuggle heroin.

Bangladesh

Taiwan's most-wanted criminal breaks into the house of McGill Alexander, a South African army colonel, and takes Alexander and his family hostage.

Taiwan

An American, Daniel Van De Zande is arrested trying to smuggle cocaine from Ecuador to Europe.

Ecuador

Journalists Scott Taylor and Zeynep Tugrul are kidnapped by insurgents who accuse them of being American spies.

Iraq/Kidnapped In Iraq

An unsuspecting woman, Zoe McGarry, is given a suitcase full of cocaine and is arrested when attempting to board a plane with it.

Betrayed In Ecuador

Henry Hill--who inspired the movie Goodfellas--relays the true story of his rise and fall as a drug dealing wiseguy in the New York mob.

The Real Goodfella

Orthodox Jew Samuel Leibowitz dreams of making millions as a drug kingpin in Brazil, leading to a terrifying term in the deadly Carandiru Penitentiary.

Hasidic King of Coke

The terrifying story of photojournalist Nigel Brennan and reporter Amanda Lindhout, who are held hostage for 15 months by a criminal gang in Somalia.

Nightmare in Somalia

Eddie Padilla is living the 'high life' and drug smuggling to support his cocaine habit. But a run-in with the Peruvian police sends him to a prison called 'House of the Devil.' Eddie tells the story of his daring escape.

Hippie Mafia

In 1972 Jim PapRocki is flying nearly a ton of marijuana from Mexico to the U.S. He's forced to crash land, with Mexican police hot on his heels.

Plane Crash Marijuana

The shocking story of South African couple Debbie Calitz and Bruno Pelizzari, who were kidnapped by Somali pirates and held captive for 20 terrifying months.

Somali Pirate Hostage Hell

The story of convicted drug dealer Pieter Tritton, whose organization used camping tents to smuggle cocaine from Ecuador to Europe.

Breaking Bad in Britain

When smuggling marijuana was interrupted, Steve  faced time behind bars unless he could escape.

Mexican Border Bust

Scott Campbell and Lucy Baker are British travellers arrested in Mexico.

Costa Rica/Mexico (Scott and Lucy's Story)

Mark Knowles is arrested in Sydney after attempting to smuggle cocaine from the U.S. to Australia.

Australia (Mark's Story)

Clare Matthews quits her job and travels to India. But when money gets tight, she gambles for a quick payout: sending hash illegally to London via parcel. It works the first time, even the second. But the third time, her luck runs out and she ends up in one of the world's largest jails.

India/Delhi/Party Girl

Scottish chef Gordon Malloch arrives in Saudi Arabia to start a new life as a catering manager, but quickly finds himself a profitable sideline as a bootlegger.

Saudi Bootlegger

Vivian Carrasquillo faces a crash diet in jail after an attempt to raise funds for gastric bypass surgery by becoming a drug mule backfires.

Teenage Drug Smuggler

Adventure-seeker Thomas Hamill takes a job driving trucks in Iraq, leading to a terrifying time in captivity after being kidnapped by insurgents.

Highway to Hell

The gripping story of Tom Hanway, who flees a Chilean prison with a fellow prisoner, taking a dangerous and fatal escape route across the desert.

Chilean Prison Break

The traumatic story of an American schoolboy and his mother, who were kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf, a jihadist group, in the Philippines and held for ransom in the jungle.

Jungle Terror

Journalist Phil is investigating illegally deployed chemical weapons when he’s taken hostage.

Double Crossed in the Desert

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.

Thailand/Thai Meth Bust

After his arrest, drug dealer Charles Falco is facing decades behind bars. Instead, he strikes a deal with the authorities and becomes a confidential informant - living a life undercover.

Undercover Biker

Donald McNeil, a yachtsman, is arrested after being pressured to collect an enormous shipment of cocaine worth 30 million pounds (more than $43.2 million in U.S. dollars).

Venezuela/Margarita Island (Denis and Donald's Story)

Krista Barnes and Jennifer Davis are two American women arrested for trying to smuggle cocaine out of Peru.

Peru (Krista and Jennifer's Story/Peruvian Prison Nightmare)

Simon's trip to Peru is initiated by his friend Sarah Jackson who convinces him to smuggle drugs. Things turn bad for Simon when he is handed a lengthy prison sentence.

Cuzco

Jake Libbon gets arrested in Mexico for selling marijuana, then is falsely accused of shooting two police officers.

Puerto Vallarta/Mexican Justice

British teen Zara Whittaker is arrested at an airport trying to smuggle cocaine out of Barbados.

Barbados/Busted And Pregnant

A 28-year-old English teacher named Tim Schrader agrees to smuggle eight kilos of heroin into the U.S. to solve his financial problems. Although he knows he could receive the death penalty, the money is too tempting to resist.

Bangkok Underworld

Lemar must survive one of Colombia’s most brutal prisons, after getting caught with cocaine.

Bad Bromance

When a famous swimwear model builds a beauty brand, it becomes the perfect ruse to smuggle drugs around the world, until her double life implodes.

Meth's Top Model

A broke young Londoner gets an exciting offer to work in his dad’s bar in Thailand. But when he arrives, he soon discovers a world of temptation that he can’t resist, breaking his father’s golden rule and driving them apart.

Thai Ice Storm

Military veteran Kim Hood faces life behind bars in a squalid Thai prison after being caught smuggling 14 kilos of heroin with a friend, Lisa Taylor.

Backstabbed in Thailand

The shocking story of Tom Hart Dyke and Paul Winder, two British backpackers who are ambushed and held for ransom by a guerilla group while crossing the notoriously dangerous Darien Gap.

The Orchid Hunters

Thrown into a notorious Bangkok prison for attempting to smuggle heroin, Angela Carnegie has an epiphany while nursing a fellow inmate with a drug addiction.

Busted in Bangkok

Ice hockey star Ryan Phillips risks it all when he starts smuggling marijuana across the U.S. border, costing him his family, career and freedom.

King of Weed

In this real life Goodfellas tale, New York teen John Alite gets a job at his local Deli, a hangout for ‘wise guys’. He soon finds himself wanting to be a mobster, and starts running errands for them.

Mafia Terminator

A Japanese-American Orange County kid gets his dream to become a gangster before a Las Vegas mob hit changes everything and he agrees to work for the FBI. Now Gangster turned informant he works his way up the world of organised crime infiltrating the heights of mafia royalty in New York, before a planned hit threatens to destroy his entire world.

Declassified Mole In The Mob

Scott White is arrested in Kuwait for selling hashish, then escapes from jail during the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.

Kuwait

Russell Thoresen, an American traveller, is arrested in Peru for trying to smuggle cocaine.

Lima

Cullen Thomas, working with his girlfriend "Rocket," is arrested trying to smuggle hashish from the Philippines to South Korea.

South Korea

Alex Silva grew up in the ghetto of El Paso Texas. Son to a single mother who didn't care he wasn't going anywhere. A small job at an auto shop got him involved in smuggling drugs from Mexico.

Mexico/Teen Smuggler

Briton David Scott tells the story of finding his soulmate in the Philippines, and risking a 14-year prison sentence for adultery.

Forbidden Love

Scott Campbell goes travelling in China with his estranged father, only to find out that his dad is a professional smuggler carrying 20 kilos of cannabis.

My Dad the Smuggler

Desperate to keep his family afloat, Paul Keany agrees to smuggle six kilos of cocaine from Venezuela back to Dublin, but it turns out to be the worst decision of his life.

Venezuela Hustle

The Colombian National Liberation Army kidnaps American adventurer Glen Heggstad.

Colombia

When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, Tom Lynch and his fellow contractor John White decided to get out of Iraq while they still could, but were captured by Iraqi soldiers and taken to a notorious prison in Baghdad, where they must listen to inmates being tortured to death.

Saddam's Iraq

The tale of Chris Chance, whose daredevil life smuggling cannabis into the U.K. concealed in a rubber body suit leads to a nasty prison sentence at Carabanchel Prison.

Daredevil Drug Runner

Travelling magician Mark Greening juggles a young family with a budding hash-smuggling business after moving to Japan, but he soon gets caught.

The Juggler Smuggler

When the plan to smuggle marijuana from Mexico into the U.S. was interrupted, Steve Peterson faced time behind bars…unless he could find a way to escape.

Colombian Double Cross

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.

Sole Smuggler

Amardeep Bassey, a British journalist on the way to Afghanistan for an assignment, is accused of being a spy and arrested in Pakistan.

Pakistan

Hollywood "party animal" Brendan Cosso and three friends are arrested trying to smuggle cocaine out of Brazil to Hungary.

Brazil/Sao Paulo Death Trap

British nurse Stephen Comiskey, who takes a job in Saudi Arabia to support his family, draws the unwelcome attention of the Saudi religious police after a series of illicit gay affairs.

Dangerous Liaisons

David and Jayne Bladen's dream of a new life overseas turns into a nightmare journey of drug smuggling and violence culminating in 20 months behind bars.

Caribbean Nightmare

In the summer of 1972, five young Americans are caught trying to smuggle more than 2,000 pounds of marijuana out of Mexico and are locked up in one of the country's most violent prisons.

Mexican Prison Escape

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.

Declassified: Double Cross Dope Deal

David Evans is arrested trying to smuggle drugs from Venezuela to Amsterdam.

Caracas/Venezuela Blues

Documentary series where viewers are taken inside accounts of capture, incarceration, and terror far away from home with intimate personal interviews and dramatic reenactments.

All Episodes of Banged Up Abroad

Season 1

Thailand (The Sandra Gregory Story)

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/21/2007

Costa Rica/Mexico (Scott and Lucy's Story)

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/31/2007

Australia (Mark's Story)

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/7/2007

Venezuela/Margarita Island (Denis and Donald's Story)

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/14/2007