Banged Up Abroad
Documentary series where viewers are taken inside accounts of capture, incarceration, and terror far away from home with intimate personal interviews and dramatic reenactments.
Episodes
To escape a life of poverty, a young Chicago gangster is drawn into smuggling drugs for a dangerous Mexican cartel, until the day it all goes wrong.
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.
Travel-loving Bronwyn Atherton finds herself on the road to destruction when she is lured into the shady world of international drug smuggling.
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.
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.
Rafael Arguelles is a gangster by the age of 17 but faces life-threatening consequences after going undercover for the FBI against his former friends.
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.
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.
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.
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.
