One of the best Clint Eastwood movies out there, "Escape from Alcatraz" is a standout representative of the prison break genre, made all the more impressive by the fact that it's based on a true story ...

Update 8/7/26: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Discovery Channel’s “Escape from Alcatraz” would premiere on Aug. 6. Discovery has not announced an official premiere date for ...

Brothers John and Clarence Anglin, two of 14 siblings, began their criminal careers with petty burglaries and car thefts before escalating to a string of bank robberies across the South. Like Morris, ...

Discovery Channel has unveiled new programming in its unscripted slate, with shows covering everything from extreme survival in the face of nature to investigations that seek to expose hidden truths ...

The 1962 escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary is perhaps the most infamous and fascinating jailbreak in American history. But what if that was just the beginning of the story? That's a question ...

On the night of June 11, 1962, three men vanished from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the maximum-security federal island prison that had been built partly around the idea that the San Francisco Bay ...

COLUMBIA - It was 68 years ago that the Bank of Columbia was robbed, setting off a chain of events that ended in an escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary four years later.

More than 60 years after three inmates disappeared into the icy waters surrounding Alcatraz, one of America’s greatest true-crime mysteries refuses to die. Although the FBI concluded that brothers ...