All All. Sign In. List activity. Cast Away. A FedEx executive undergoes a physical and emotional transformation after crash landing on a deserted island. Eight Below. Brutal cold forces two Antarctic explorers to leave their team of sled dogs behind as they fend for their survival.
Life of Pi. A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger. In , with five loyal friends in tow, explorer Thor Heyerdahl sails a fragile balsa wood raft along an ancient path some 4, miles across the Pacific. North Face. A secretary at a Berlin newspaper in gets to write about two Alpinists, as she knows them well.
She later gets to report on and photograph her friends' and other Alpinists' climbs of the dangerous Swiss Eiger north face. Rabbit-Proof Fence. In , three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a journey across the Outback.
Rescue Dawn. The Grey. After their plane crashes in Alaska, six oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step. The Way Back. Siberian gulag escapees travel four thousand miles by foot to freedom in India.
After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp. Lone Survivor. Marcus Luttrell and his team set out on a mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shah, in late June Marcus and his team are left to fight for their lives in one of the most valiant efforts of modern warfare.
