Prison Break is a crime drama TV series that aired from 2005 to 2009. Created by Paul T. Scheuring, the show follows the story of two brothers, Michael Scofield (played by Wentworth Miller) and Lincoln Burrows (played by Dominic Purcell). Michael, a genius engineer, gets himself incarcerated in Fox River State Penitentiary to break out his brother, who has been wrongly convicted of murder.