Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman

8:00 AM to 9:00 AM

Friday 22 August

Tunneling to Freedom

Season 2 Episode 7

During the American Civil War, a daring prison break freed hundreds of captured Union soldiers. Colonel Thomas Rose was a schoolteacher before the Civil War and when he was captured and sent to Libby Prison in Richmond Virginia, he engineered a mass escape

Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman airs on Sky History 2 HD at 8:00 AM, Friday 22 August. (Subtitles.)

Topics

Education ➝ Science ➝ Factual Topics

Factual Crime

Morgan Freeman

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