Breakout is a Canadian television series that aired on the National Geographic Channel throughout the world.
It dramatizes real life prison breakouts.
[1] A number of different producers, writers, actors and other film professionals worked on different episodes.
[2] Episode 15, which featured the prison escape of South African political prisoners Tim Jenkin, Stephen Lee and Alex Moumbaris from Pretoria Central Prison in 1979, was shown in the United Kingdom on 19 April 2013.
[3] This escape was again dramatized in the feature-length film, Escape from Pretoria, starring Daniel Radcliffe.