Escape

Escape or Escaping may refer to:

Arts and media

Film

• Escape (1928 film), a German silent drama film
• Escape! (film), a 1930 British crime film starring Austin Trevor and Edna Best
• Escape (1940 film), starring Robert Taylor and Norma Shearer, based on the novel by Ethel Vance
• Escape (1948 film), starring Rex Harrison
• Escape (1971 film), a television movie starring Christopher George and William Windom
• Escape (1980 film), a television movie starring Timothy Bottoms and Colleen Dewhurst
• Escape (1988 film), an Egyptian film directed by Atef El-Tayeb
• Escape (2012 American film), a thriller starring C. Thomas Howell, John Rhys-Davies, Anora Lyn
• Escape (2012 Norwegian film), a thriller originally titled Flukt
• Escapes (film), a 2017 documentary film about Blade Runner screenwriter Hampton Fancher
• Escape (2021 film), a Malayalam film starring Santhosh Keezhattoor
• Escape (2024 South Korean film), an action film starring Lee Je-hoon and Koo Kyo-hwan
• Escape (upcoming film), a Spanish thriller directed by Rodrigo Cortés

Literature

Books

• Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini, a 2006 book by Sid Fleischman
• Escape (Jessop and Palmer book), a 2007 book about Jessop's upbringing in a Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints polygamous community
• Escape (Choose Your Own Adventure), a Choose Your Own Adventure book
• Escape (McMillan book), a 2008 autobiographical book by smuggler David McMillan
• Escape, a 1939 novel by Grace Zaring Stone under the pseudonym Ethel Vance
• Escape, a 2022 novel by K.R. Alexander.

Other literature

• Escape (play), a 1926 play by the British writer John Galsworthy
• Escape (magazine), a British comic strip magazine published between 1983 and 1989
• "Escape!", a 1945 science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov
• Escape (manga), a 1981 short manga by Akira Toriyama

Music

Albums

• Escape (Enrique Iglesias album), or the title song (see below), 2001
• Escape (Gorgon City album), 2018
• Escape (Jody Harris and Robert Quine album), 1981
• Escape (Journey album), or the title song, 1981
• Escape (Nine Lashes album), 2009
• Escape (Ram-Zet album), 2002
• Escape (Whodini album), or the title song, 1984
• Escape (EP), by Kim Hyung-jun, 2012
• Escape, an EP by Daoko with Yohji Igarashi, 2022

Songs

• "Escape" (Enrique Iglesias song), 2001
• "Escape" (Misia song), 2000
• "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)", by Rupert Holmes, 1979
• "Escape", a song by Alice Cooper from Welcome to My Nightmare
• "Escape", a song by Craig Armstrong
• "Escape", a song by Hoobastank from The Reason
• "Escape", a song by Kehlani from SweetSexySavage
• "Escape", a song by Kx5 and Hayla
• "Escape", a song by Matisyahu from Light
• "Escape", a song by Metallica from Ride the Lightning
• "Escape", a song by Muse from Showbiz
• "Escaping" (song), by Margaret Urlich, 1989
• "Escaping", a song by Blues Traveler from the single "Run-Around", 1995
• "Escaping", a song by High Flight Society from High Flight Society, 2007
• "Escaping", a song by Kathryn Williams from Over Fly Over, 2005
• "Escaping", a song by Kiko Loureiro from No Gravity, 2005

Radio

• Escape (radio program), a radio drama series on CBS
• Escape (Sirius XM), a music channel on satellite radio

Television

• Escape (TV network), American TV network now named Ion Mystery since 2022
• Escape (1950 TV series), a 1950 American drama anthology series that aired on CBS
• Escape (1973 TV series), a 1973 American adventure anthology series that aired on NBC
• Escape (British TV series), a 1957 British anthology series
• Escape, a Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends episode

Video games

• Escape (video game), a ZX Spectrum video game developed and released by New Generation Software in 1982
• Westone Bit Entertainment, a video game company formerly known as Escape

Science and technology

Computing

• Escape character, a character that signifies that what follows takes an alternative interpretation
  • Escape sequence, a series of characters used to trigger some sort of command state in computers
• Escape key, the "Esc" key on a computer keyboard

Life sciences

• Antigenic escape, inability to respond to an infectious agent
• Escape response, instinctive behaviour in animals

Space science

• Extreme-ultraviolet Stellar Characterization for Atmospheric Physics and Evolution, a NASA Small Explorer satellite
• Escape from a gravitationally bound orbit, by exceeding escape velocity

Other uses

• Fire escape, a type of emergency exit often found on multiple-storey residential buildings
• Ford Escape, a small sport utility vehicle
• Prison escape, the act of breaking out of prison

See also

• The Escape (disambiguation)
• Escapism, mental diversion by means of entertainment or recreation
• Escapology, the study and practice of escaping from physical restraints
• E-scape, an educational assessment project at Goldsmiths University, London
• Escapa (disambiguation)
• Xscape (disambiguation)
• Escape Cliffs, a historic settlement site in the Northern Territory, Australia
• ESKAPE