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DC Daring Capers True Crime Stories Set 1 06of10 A Great Escape WEB X264 AAC
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History Documentary hosted by Charlie Glaze, published by Discovery Channel in 1999 - English narration
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Money. Some people have it; others plot to take it.
From the narrow streets of Nice to the gleaning corridors of Wall Street, DARING CAPERS tracks some of the world's most fascinating criminals and their audacious crimes. Here's a rogue's gallery of bank robbers, art thieves, and debonair con artists who tried to steal their way to wealth through brilliant ploys and slick transactions. Their methods may amuse, their exploits may amaze, but their determination to make an easy buck is no laughing matter!
These are the stories of some of the most outlandish and unlawful get-rich-quick schemes ever exposed. Some were even successful. At least so far.
Tunnel under the streets of Nice, France with international thief Albert Spaggiari to relieve a bank of it's assets; escape with S8 million in cash, gems and gold from the Lufthansa Air Cargo terminal at Kennedy Airport; and slip into the world's finest homes with legendary cat burglar Blane David Nordahl, leaving with only the best pieces of silver. These daring felons have vastly different styles, but each shares a genius for larceny and a brash disrespect for the law.
The high-rise burglar, the daring jewel thief, the tunneling bank robbers, the Italian playboy who is more than he appears and the 'Queen of Jewels' whose exploits baffled her pursuers; these are just a few of the rogues you'll meet in this amazing, amusing and entertaining collection of world-class criminals!
Through dramatizations, news footage and interviews with witnesses and law enforcement officials, DARING CAPERS: TRUE CRIME STORIES takes you down the moral low road into the enticingly dangerous, devilish world of the criminal in 20 edge-of-your-seat episodes, originally aired on TLC, The Learning Channel.
Produced by New Dominion Pictures for TLC
6) A Great Escape
During WWII, a crafty German fighter pilot escapes not once, buy twice as he is being transported to prisoner-of-war camps. When Franz von Werra, a German fighter ace in World War II, was shot down over England and taken prisoner in 1940, he vowed that he would get away. Arrogant, cunning and intelligent, von Werra successfully arranged and executed a daring escape from Swanwick prison camp. Six weeks after his arrival, he and four others crawled to freedom through a tunnel they constructed. Dressed as a Dutch pilot, von Werra found his way to a nearby airfield and was grabbed, frantically trying to start the engine of a parked Hurricane. The recaptured von Werra was put on a ship headed for a Canadian POW camp, but the distance did not discourage this determined prisoner. He made a perilous leap from the transport train before it reached the prison camp and pushed his way across the icy St. Lawrence River to the then neutral United States. He did finally reach German soil, but three months later, while leading a patrol of fighters off the coast of Holland, his aircraft experienced engine trouble and plunged into the sea. No trace of von Werra, or his aircraft, was ever recovered.
