Prison Break is a popular American television series that aired from 2005 to 2009, and was revived in 2017. Created by Paul Scheuring, the show revolves around two brothers, Michael Scofield (played by Wentworth Miller) and Lincoln Burrows (played by Dominic Purcell). Michael, a brilliant engineer, gets himself incarcerated in Fox River State Penitentiary to break out his brother Lincoln, who is on death row for a crime he did not commit.