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[TRAILER] On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes. Director J.A. Bayona (The Impossible, The Orphanage) adapts the true story into a Netflix original film. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 12, 2024 - 3 comments

"Ten survival 'experts' attempt to survive alone. The winner receives $500,000." (IMDB) This season's competition is again in northern Canada, on Reindeer Lake in Saskatchewan. New episodes air Tuesdays and are free online Thursdays at the History Channel site.
posted by Countess Elena on Jul 9, 2023 - 13 comments

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. [more inside]
posted by quatsch on Jul 7, 2023 - 2 comments

Five people sign up to be on Civilization, a new reality TV show where contestants have to survive for six weeks in a remote area with a minimal amount of clothing and only one tool each. A math teacher, a survival skills teacher, an Eagle Scout, a woodsman, and a charismatic person tossed out in the woods together, attempting to ignore the film crew. And then things... go wrong.
posted by The corpse in the library on Mar 31, 2023 - 7 comments

[TRAILER] Based on a local legend and set in an unknown era, it deals with universal themes of love, possessiveness, family, jealousy and power. Beautifully shot, and acted by Inuit people, it portrays a time when people fought duels by taking turns to punch each other until one was unconscious, made love on the way to the caribou hunt, ate walrus meat and lit their igloos with seal-oil lamps. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Nov 10, 2022 - 8 comments

On the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public, and inhabited by violent savages ready to attack. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Oct 31, 2022 - 7 comments

Anyone else in the mood for a tightly-written disaster novel that's more interested in people's responses to an emergency than in the emergency itself? Rumaan Alam's Leave the World Behind is a dread-packed piece about two families forced to hunker down together during an uncertain, unsettling period of world-altering events. It was a finalist in the National Book Awards 2020 for Fiction, and is Alam's third novel. [more inside]
posted by MonkeyToes on Mar 25, 2021 - 11 comments

A young woman, while attempting to save her father during a category 5 hurricane, finds herself trapped in a flooding house and must fight for her life against alligators. [more inside]
posted by ejs on Jun 22, 2020 - 7 comments

During the 1800s, a safari guide, two elephant hunters and their crew run into trouble with natives in the South African veld when they refuse to offer gifts to the tribesmen. [more inside]
posted by Ten Cold Hot Dogs on Apr 10, 2018 - 0 comments

The story of Chesley Sullenberger, who became a hero after gliding his plane along the water in the Hudson River, saving all of the airplane flights 155 crew and passengers.
posted by misfish on Sep 12, 2016 - 24 comments

While a zombie-virus breaks out in South Korea, a couple of passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.
posted by misfish on Sep 5, 2016 - 19 comments

Connie accompanies Steven and Pearl on her first real Crystal Gem mission!
posted by Small Dollar on Aug 1, 2016 - 10 comments

Steven tries to help out Sadie and Lars' relationship by taking them to a tropical island, but they end up stranded.
posted by Small Dollar on Oct 24, 2014 - 12 comments

On the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe. How meteorites may carry life between worlds, as well as allow earthly life to have survived the scouring of the earth's surface in its early history. The possibility and potential problems of communicating with intelligent extraterrestrial life. How civilizations die, and how ours may survive.
posted by DevilsAdvocate on May 19, 2014 - 18 comments