The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains
The true story of Robert Elliot Burns, the prisoner who, after being sentenced to a Georgia chain gang, attempted two daring escapes.
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"This was one of the first HBO productions I ever saw, in spite of having HBO for several years. I was spell bound by it. A man wrongfully convicted for a crime he did not commit, and subjected to the absolute worst period in American penitentiary history. The kangaroo court, the false testimony, the trumped up charge, the brutalization of an honest man "doing time" shackled to other convicts, and the brutality of the labor itself of "making small rocks out of big rocks." Based on a true story of how a tragic miscarriage of justice absolutely destroyed an honest man'..."
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The true story of Robert Elliot Burns, the prisoner who, after being sentenced to a Georgia chain gang, attempted two daring escapes.