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| Breakout | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Docudrama |
| Country of origin | Canada United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 16 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Jeremy Hall Rebecca North |
| Production location(s) | Canada |
| Production company(s) | Raw TV Cream |
| Release | |
| Original network | Discovery Channel Canada National Geographic Channel |
| Original release | March 28, 2010 – March 23, 2013 |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
Breakout is a Canadian television series that aired on the National Geographic Channel throughout the world. It dramatizes real life prison breakouts. The series premiered on March 28, 2010, and aired its last episode on March 23, 2013. It was listed as a Canada/UK co-production. [1]
"Real life" is a phrase used originally in literature to distinguish between the real world and fictional or idealized worlds, and in acting to distinguish between performers and the characters they portray. More recently, it has become a popular term on the Internet to describe events, people, activities, and interactions occurring offline; or otherwise not primarily through the medium of the Internet. It is also used as a metaphor to distinguish life in a vocational setting as opposed to an academic one.
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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 UK on 19 April 2013. [3] This escape will again be dramatized in the feature-length film Escape from Pretoria, starring Daniel Radcliffe, filmed in Adelaide in early 2019. [4]
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 mi) of coastline of Southern Africa stretching along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; and to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini (Swaziland); and it surrounds the enclaved country of Lesotho. South Africa is the largest country in Southern Africa and the 25th-largest country in the world by land area and, with over 57 million people, is the world's 24th-most populous nation. It is the southernmost country on the mainland of the Old World or the Eastern Hemisphere. About 80 percent of South Africans are of Sub-Saharan African ancestry, divided among a variety of ethnic groups speaking different African languages, nine of which have official status. The remaining population consists of Africa's largest communities of European (White), Asian (Indian), and multiracial (Coloured) ancestry.
Timothy Peter Jenkin is a South African writer and former political prisoner best known for his 1979 escape from Pretoria Central Prison.
Stephen Bernard Lee is a South African former political prisoner best known for his 1979 escape from Pretoria Central Prison with friend and fellow activist Tim Jenkin and a third inmate, Alex Moumbaris.
