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Escape from Pretoria is a 2020 prison film co-written and directed by Francis Annan, based on the real-life prison escape by three political prisoners in South Africa in 1979, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Daniel Webber. It is based on the 2003 book Inside Out: Escape from Pretoria Prison by Tim Jenkin, one of the escapees.
The seven-episode series is based on the true story of the 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape in upstate New York. The breakout sparked a massive manhunt for two convicted murderers, Richard Matt and David Sweat, who were aided in their escape by Joyce "Tilly" Mitchell, a married prison employee entangled in secretive and inappropriate relationships with both men.
"Escape at Dannemora," a limited series originally released in 2018 on Showtime, has found a new crime drama-loving audience on Netflix. The series details the prison escape of two men, David ...
The escape was the subject of a television movie in 2017, New York Prison Break: The Seduction of Joyce Mitchell. Penelope Ann Miller starred as Joyce Mitchell, with Matt played by Myk Watford and Joe Anderson as Sweat. It was directed and written by Stephen Tolkin, and aired on the Lifetime Network. [50] [51]
June 6, 2015: Sweat and Matt successfully escape the maximum security prison in Dannemora. June 26, 2015: Matt is found alone in Malone, about 30 miles west of the Clinton Correctional Facility.
The story of their escape from prison made national headlines at the time, and it’s being revisited in a new Netflix documentary, “Jailbreak: Love on the Run.”
Spiderhead is a 2022 American sci-fi psychological thriller film directed by Joseph Kosinski, with a screenplay by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, based on the dystopian short story "Escape from Spiderhead" by George Saunders and first published in The New Yorker. The film stars Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller, and Jurnee Smollett. The story ...
Netflix's "Love on the Run" tells the story of Casey White, an inmate who escaped prison with the help of corrections officer, Vicky White, in 2022.