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Impossible Escapes: Civil War

Impossible Escapes: Civil War

26 May 20226 episodes

Where to watch Impossible Escapes: Civil War Season 1

Impossible Escapes: Civil War season 1 is streaming in Australia on Curiosity Stream (subscription) and free on Tubi. Season 1 was released on 26 May 2022.

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Availability checked 16 November 2026.

Impossible Escapes: Civil War Season 1 air dates

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Air dates: TMDB.

Impossible Escapes: Civil War Season 1 episodes

  1. S01 E01

    Breaking Out of Libby Prison

    32m

    Colonel Thomas Rose is one of more than 1000 Union officers held in Richmond Virginia’s notorious Libby Prison. It’s an inescapable fortress known for its stark white walls its numbing conditions and its rats. But for POWs like Colonel Rose there is just one thing to think about: escape.

  2. S01 E02

    Rebel Raid in Vermont

    31m

    The front lines of the Civil War lie hundreds of miles from Vermont but Confederate Bennett Young plans to bring the war to the North. He’ll lead a group of raiders into the town of St. Albans to rob its banks and burn its buildings then make a run for Canada. But a local posse has other plans.

  3. S01 E03

    Into the Rebel Swamp

    36m

    If the POWs of Libby Prison faced "Rat Hell" you could call what Wallace Turnage endured "snake hell". Turnage was born a slave and by the time we pick up the story from the recently rediscovered autobiography he'd already made multiple escape attempts ...and been brutally beaten for them.

  4. S01 E04

    Robert Smalls: Steamboat to Freedom

    42m

    Enslaved aboard the Confederate ship the CSS Planter Robert Smalls has learned the skills of a naval captain. One night when he and his enslaved crew mates are left alone on the ship during the height of the war they need to decide whether to risk it all and make a run for the nearby US Navy.

  5. S01 E05

    John Doy and the Immortal 10

    31m

    Dr. John Doy is a guide on the Underground Railroad attempting to lead a group of men women and children to safety in Canada. When their party is intercepted by a notorious slave catcher Doy is thrown into a Missouri jail. All appears to be lost until his friends hatch a bold plot to free him.

  6. S01 E06

    Pauline Cushman: Tales of a Yankee Spy

    40m

    Pauline Cushman is a Union war widow a stage actress… and a spy. But on a mission behind enemy lines in search of the Confederate General Braxton Bragg she is arrested and sentenced to be hanged. Can her acting skills rescue her from this life and death predicament?

Episode names, air dates, runtimes and summaries: TMDB. Air dates are the first broadcast anywhere.