Just hours before President Donald Trump announced his plans to direct the Federal Bureau of Prisons to reopen Alcatraz Federal Prison, the iconic 1979 Clint Eastwood movie "Escape From Alcatraz" ...

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, ...

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 ...

As President Donald Trump seeks to reopen Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the men who pulled off the 1962 escape that made the island legendary vanished, and no one has ever learned what became of them ...

More than a million people visit Alcatraz Island every year to see the shuttered prison sitting in the San Francisco Bay, made famous by Clint Eastwood in the movie about the great escape of three ...

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 ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Digging a Hole… with a Spoon… Escape from Alcatraz A darkly comedic escape game where you dig your way out of a decaying Alcatraz-style prison using nothing ...