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1) The raft
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Robbie's last-minute flight to the Midway Atoll proves to be a nightmare when the plane goes down in shark-infested waters. Fighting for her life, the co-pilot Max pulls her onto the raft, and that's when the real terror begins.
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This is the story of a dog's journey back to her family. Sophie Tucker, a three-year-old Australian blue heeler, goes overboard into the predator infested waters of the Great Barrier Reef, and Sophie's heartbroken family has given her up for lost; little do they know that Sophie swam six miles to an isolated nature preserve called St. Bees, where she survived unassisted for five months by living off the land. The story of her survival and rescue is...
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"Describes the fight for survival while being lost at sea"--Provided by publisher.
You're in the middle of the ocean. The blazing sun beats down on you mercilessly. Theres water everywhere but you cant drink it. How will you stay alive until help reaches you? Will you: Work to save yourself and others when your small airplane crashes at sea? Battle a fierce storm as a passenger on a chartered sailboat in the Caribbean? Try to survive alone on a small...
6) Snowbound
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"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.
9) 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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They are twelve men who shouldn't be alive. They have survived the sudden blinding sandstorm that crippled their air freighter. Survived a desperate crash landing in the Sahara. Survived to face the slow, dry, agonizing death of the desert. Twelve men with one hope: to build a new plane from the wreckage of their Skytruck and make a flight out of hell.
14) 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.
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When Dorie Anderson meets a cute guy, she becomes a huge klutz. But one phone call has turned her dead-end dating life into an adventure: she's won a trip on a singles' cruise to Fiji. On board, she soon meets pro baseball player Andy, and the ship's hunky French doctor. She's sure she'll fall head-over-heels in no time. Unfortunately, she's right: soon, she trips over her luggage right in front of them. Mortifying. But a bigger disaster is just on...
18) 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.
19) 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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Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan's dramatic tale of survival at sea was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than thirty-six weeks. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift is an undeniable seafaring classic, a riveting firsthand account by the only man known to have survived more than a month alone at sea, fighting for his life in an inflatable raft after his small sloop...