They Shouldn't Have Survived

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They Shouldn't Have Survived tells extraordinary true stories of endurance, ingenuity, and rescue. Each cinematic episode follows people caught in disasters on land, at sea, underground, and beyond Earth—and the decisions, teamwork, and hard-won hope that brought them home. From Rogue Media Network.

Eleven Days Beneath the Green

Seventeen-year-old Juliane Koepcke survived the breakup of LANSA Flight 508 over the Peruvian Amazon and followed water through the rainforest for eleven days until she found help.

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The Ship the Ice Refused to Keep

When Endurance was crushed in Antarctic pack ice, twenty-eight men crossed drifting floes, open ocean, and mountains in one of history's most remarkable collective survival stories.

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A Lifeboat Between Earth and Moon

An oxygen-tank failure turned Apollo 13 from a Moon landing into a four-day struggle to keep three astronauts alive in a damaged spacecraft.

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The Long Dive Out

Twelve young football players and their coach were trapped by monsoon water deep inside Thailand's Tham Luang cave, setting off an unprecedented international rescue.

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Alone on Wrangel Island

Hired as a seamstress, Ada Blackjack taught herself the skills that kept her alive after a colonial Arctic expedition collapsed around her.

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One Hundred Thirty-Three Days Adrift

After a German U-boat sank his merchant ship, Poon Lim survived 133 days alone on a wooden life raft in the South Atlantic.

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Sixty Hours Under the Sea

When the tug Jascon-4 capsized off Nigeria, cook Harrison Okene survived for more than sixty hours in an air pocket thirty meters underwater.

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Seventy-Two Days in the Andes

After a plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team crashed high in the Andes, the survivors endured seventy-two days before two men crossed the mountains to find help.

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The Long Walk Back from Antarctica

After both companions died during an Antarctic sledging journey, Douglas Mawson hauled himself alone across crevassed ice toward a ship he could no longer see.

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The Thirty-Three Below

Thirty-three miners trapped 2,300 feet beneath the Atacama Desert organized to survive for seventeen days before rescuers even knew they were alive.

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