The Rock

San Francisco Bay is home to various shark species. Alcatraz guards made sure the prisoners knew it, telling stories of sharks to stop escapes.

A documentary account by award-winning filmmaker John Ferry of the events that led up to the 1969 Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island as...

It's one of the most complex prison breaks in history. Their escape is legendary, but their fate has never been revealed until now.

The greatest prison break in history became America's most notorious cold case. The escape from Alcatraz in 1962 forced the government into a...

More than 50 years after three men broke out of the world's toughest penitentiary, HISTORY's 'ALCATRAZ: SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH' uncovers new leads and...

New and revealing interviews from those who know the truth about The Rock.

January, 1947. The public receives the news of Al Capone's death with indifference, although twenty years earlier he had ruled Chicago's crime...

A young, inexperienced public defender is assigned to defend an inmate accused of committing murder while behind bars.

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair,...

After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money...

Soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, cynical former newspaper correspondent John Royer devises a scheme with his old editor and government...

A doctor testing drugs on convicts gets mixed up in a murder investigation.