About this season
Survival expert Hazen Audel travels across the globe to relive some of the most extraordinary stories of wilderness survival from World War II.
Episodes (6)
1. POW Jungle Escape
Aired 28 October 2019 • 44 min
Hazen Audel takes on swamps, caves and deadly predators as he retraces the treacherous journey of 11 U.S. soldiers who fled a prisoner-of war-camp in the Philippines.
2. Death in the Outback
Aired 4 November 2019 • 44 min
Hazen traces the desperate passage of four US airmen who faced killer crocodiles and extreme heat after a mission stranded them in Australia's Gulf Country.
3. Frozen Nazi Escape
Aired 11 November 2019 • 44 min
Hazen Audel braves Europe's largest plateau to retrace the white-knuckle escape of the Norwegian commandos who thwarted Adolf Hitler's creation of an atomic bomb.
4. Desert Island Manhunt
Aired 18 November 2019 • 44 min
Hazen Audel retraces the steps of Lt. Hugh Miller who was shipwrecked on a Japanese-occupied island in the South Pacific; left for dead, the U.S. Navy officer single handedly fights and kills Japanese soldiers until his rescue several weeks later.
5. Death Railway Escape
Aired 25 November 2019 • 44 min
Travelling across the globe to relive some of the most astonishing stories of wilderness survival from World War II. During this conflict, soldiers, sailors and airmen became lost behind enemy lines in some of the most inhospitable places on Earth.
6. Nazi Island Manhunt
Aired 2 December 2019 • 44 min
Hazen Audel retraces the epic plight of an escaped prisoner of war, who cleverly evaded capture on Nazi-occupied Crete for more than two years.