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2) Snowbound
Summary
"Stranded on a desolate mountain road, Jim (Neil Patrick Harris) and Jennifer Stolpa (Kelli Williams), and their baby, end up locked in a desperate fight for survival against the elements in this gripping drama. Based on a true story, this engrossing movie will keep you glued to your screen. When Jim realizes that they will not be rescued in time to save their lives, he ventures off on a perilous 50 mile journey with only one goal in mind: survival...
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Throughout history, the most harrowing stories of human survival, like that of the Donner Party in the 1840s, have involved people whose only means of staying alive was to cannibalize the deceased around them. On Friday the 13th of October, 1972, just such a story began when a charter plane carrying 45 rugby team members crashed in the remote Andes Mountains. For 72 days, the world thought they were dead. But what 16 survivors endured was far worse...
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Michael Cooper is a designer whose state-of-the-art ski lodge is in harm's way of a titanic avalanche that buries his new wife, Emily, and a resentful teenage daughther, Paige, inside. In a desperate race against time, Emily leads the survivors on a treacherous journey to freedom, while Michael mounts rescue efforts before a second, even more devastating avalance hits.
5) Survivorman
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Imagine being stranded in the most extreme environments for 7 days. With no support crew and operating the camera himself, survival expert Les Stroud tackles this question as he tests himself in the wilderness, ranging from the desert to the Arctic.
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Les 'Survivorman' Stroud uses skills, bravery, and ingenuity to tackle seemingly impossible situations as he attempts to survive without food or shelter in some of the world's harshest environments. Features: Sierra Nevada; Colorado Rockies; Arctic Tundra; Deep Woods; Australian Outback; and Papua New Guinea.
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Lost volume 4th season
Summary
More than three months after their fateful crash, the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 will discover that the only thing more dangerous than the island might be the people who have come to rescue them.
8) Altitude
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After a mysterious malfunction sends their small plane climbing out of control, a rookie pilot and her four teenage friends find themselves trapped in a deadly showdown with a supernatural force.
11) Cast away
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Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer, finds his ruled-by-the-clock existence ended when a harrowing plane crash leaves him isolated on a remote island. As Chuck struggles to survive, he finds that his own personal journey has only just begun.
12) Against the sun
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Three US Navy airmen crash land their torpedo bomber in the South Pacific and find themselves on a tiny life raft, surrounded by open ocean. Against incredible odds, these three virtual strangers must survive storms, sharks, starvation, and each other, as they try to sail more than a thousand miles to safety.
13) Twelfth night
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After a shipwreck, twin siblings Viola and Sebastian wash up on the shores of Illyria. Viola, disguised as a man named Cesario, takes up service with the Duke Orsino, who is madly in love with the Lady Olivia. But Olivia is in mourning over her brother's death, so Orsino sends Cesario over as an emissary of love, except that Olivia falls for Viola!
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A two-week trek through the Cascade Mountains tries the survival instincts of five adventuresome teenagers. At first, it's all a good time. Shooting the rapids, exploring caves and making new friends. But when an accident occurs, Mother Nature raises the stakes and challenges the hikers to the greatest test of their young lives.
15) Enemy mine
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The time is the future and a savage war rages between Earth and the planet Dracon, which is inhabited by intelligent, lizard-like creatures. An earth pilot and a Dracon creature both crash-land on the fiery, barren planet Fyrine IV. The two sworn enemies can think only of destroying each other, until they come to realize the only way either will survive is for both to overcome their undying hatred.
17) 65
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"After a catastrophic crash on an unknown planet, pilot Mills quickly discovers he's actually stranded on Earth... 65 million years ago. Now, with only one chance at rescue, Mills and the only other survivor, Koa, must make their way across an unknown terrain riddled with dangerous prehistoric creatures in an epic fight to survive" --Container.
19) Lifeboat
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When an their vessel is torpedoed in the Atlantic Ocean during WWII, eight survivors find refuge in a lifeboat. Short on food and water, their situation is further complicated when they rescue a crew member from the German submarine that sank their ship.
20) Twelfth night
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Shipwrecked on an unfriendly Illyrian shore, Viola, believing her twin brother is dead, disguises herself in male attire and joins the retinue of the lovesick Duke Orsino.
