WWII's Great Escapes: The Freedom Trails

Name: WWII's Great Escapes: The Freedom Trails
Released: 2017-09-16T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Monty Halls

TV Show · Documentary · History

WWII's Great Escapes follows explorer and former Royal Marine Monty Halls on the path of the Freedom Trails-the treacherous secret escape routes out of Nazi-occupied Europe. Retracing these extraordinary journeys, Monty recounts hair-raising stories of survival as ordinary women and men became heroes.

2017 · 49m

Starring Monty Halls

Director Tom Whitworth

EPISODE 1

Slovenia

Monty heads to Slovenia to retrace one of the most daring, yet unknown, mass escapes of Allied prisoners during the Second World War, made possible only with the help and kindness of ordinary people.
EPISODE 2

Sulmona

Monty tells an incredible story of evasion and escape through unknown, hostile territory in central Italy. He follows the route taken by prisoner of war Len Harley, who spent months on the run before braving snow, ice, and Nazi patrols to escape over the mountains of the Majella.
EPISODE 3

Rossano

Monty travels to Rossano in Northern Italy, a gathering point for escaped POWs after the Italian Armistice and the start of the Operation Galia exfiltration.
EPISODE 4

The Pyrenees

Monty treks one of the toughest and most famous trails out of Nazi occupied France, taking him through the valleys and passes of the Pyrenees mountain range and into Spain.