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Meru 2015
Documentary
Meru is the electrifying story of three elite American climbers—Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk—bent on achieving the impossible.
The sides of Meru
- Three climbers on the Shark's Fin of Meru
- A first attempt that ends short of the top
- Nights in a tent hanging off a wall
Good for you if
- you like watching people push their bodies past what seems possible.
- you love the Himalayas filmed by the climbers themselves.
- you like the loyalty between Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch people dangling over a huge drop.
- you'd rather not hear about serious injuries and friends lost in the mountains.
About: obsession · friendship · risk
Last Breath 2019
Documentary
A commercial diver is stranded on the seabed with only five minutes of oxygen supply, but with no chance of rescue for more than 30 minutes. With access to amazing archival footage, this is the true story of one man’s impossible fight for survival.
The sides of Last Breath
- A diver stranded on the bottom of the North Sea
- Five minutes of oxygen and no rescue for thirty
- His crew trying to reach him
Good for you if
- you like counting the minutes with a crew racing against time.
- you like a real fight to stay alive against the odds.
- you want real footage and the people who lived it.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand the dread of deep dark water and running out of air.
- you can't sit through colleagues believing a friend is dead.
About: survival · teamwork · luck
The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari 2022
Documentary
A close examination of the Whakaari / White Island volcanic eruption of 2019 in which 22 lives were lost, the film viscerally recounts a day when ordinary people were called upon to do extraordinary things, placing this tragic event within the larger context of nature, resilience, and the power of our shared humanity.
The sides of The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari
- The 2019 eruption on Whakaari White Island
- Tourists caught on the crater floor
- Pilots and boat crews who went back in
Good for you if
- you want survivors and rescuers telling it in their own words.
- you like following a rescue minute by minute.
- you like stories of ordinary people who refused to leave others behind.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a film about real deaths and severe burns.
- you want something light for your evening.
About: courage · a natural disaster · grief
The Alpinist 2021
Documentary
The life of Canadian mountain climber Marc-André Leclerc as he pushes the boundaries of climbing while on an expedition to Patagonia.
The sides of The Alpinist
- A young climber who avoids cameras
- Solo climbs without a rope
- A winter expedition to Patagonia
Good for you if
- you love huge mountains, ice and rock walls.
- you like climbing footage shot from impossible angles.
- you like watching someone alone on a wall, one move at a time.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a real family live with what solo climbing might cost.
- you want a relaxed outdoor film. Every climb here is a life or death risk.
About: freedom · risk · solitude
127 horas 2010
Película
Basada en la historia real de Aron Ralston, un intrépido montañero norteamericano tristemente famoso porque en mayo de 2003, durante una escalada, en Utah, sufrió una caída. Tras varios días inmovilizado e incapaz de encontrar una solución, tuvo que tomar una dramática decisión.
Las caras de 127 horas
- Un escalador atrapado por una roca
- Cinco días en un cañón
- Una decisión
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una historia real de supervivencia contra todo.
- te gusta un actor que sostiene una película él solo.
- te gusta ver cómo se acaba el tiempo.
Mala para ti si
- una escena célebre es demasiado dura para ti.
- quieres una historia de supervivencia contada en silencio. Danny Boyle llena el cañón de pantallas divididas y música atronadora.
Temas: la supervivencia · la voluntad · la soledad
Everest 2015
Película
Narra la historia del neozelandés Rod Edwin Hall, quien el 10 de Mayo de 1996 empezó su ascenso del Everest junto con Scott Fischer.
Las caras de Everest
- Dos expediciones camino de la cumbre
- Una ventisca en la montaña más alta del mundo
- Alpinistas atrapados sin oxígeno
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una tormenta que se cierra sobre unos alpinistas cerca de la cumbre.
- quieres la historia real del desastre del Everest de 1996.
- quieres la inmensidad del Himalaya en pantalla grande.
Mala para ti si
- necesitas un final feliz, y este desastre costó vidas reales.
- te pierdes entre muchos alpinistas vestidos todos igual.
Temas: la ambición · el duelo · la naturaleza
The Deepest Breath 2023
Documentary
Bonded by their love of freediving, a record-setting champion and a heroic safety diver try to make history with a remarkable feat, ready to risk it all.
The sides of The Deepest Breath
- A freediving champion chasing depth records
- A safety diver who watches over her
- Dives into the Blue Hole of Dahab
Good for you if
- you like holding your breath with a diver far below the surface.
- you want to discover freediving and the people who live for it.
- you like a true story told with real footage of the dives.
Bad for you if
- you can't take a true story where the risks of a sport become real.
- you panic watching divers alone in deep, dark water on a single breath.
About: risk · trust · the sea
The Twister: Caught in the Storm 2025
Documentary
In May 2011, a massive tornado ripped through Joplin, Missouri. With pulse-pounding firsthand footage, this documentary goes inside a deadly twister.
The sides of The Twister: Caught in the Storm
- The May 2011 Joplin tornado
- Phone footage filmed by people inside it
- Survivors looking back
Good for you if
- you want to hear Joplin survivors tell their own story.
- you can take footage filmed from inside the storm as it hits.
Bad for you if
- you find real deaths and grief too much for a night in.
- you want polished, composed images. Much of it is shaky phone footage.
About: grief · survival · community
Bear Grylls: Escape From Hell 2013
Series
Bear Grylls takes his survival expertise one step further as he reveals the incredible stories of ordinary people stranded in devastatingly dire situations. Coupled with incredible archive footage and interviews with the survivors, Bear will pit himself against the very same dangers and scenarios, reliving their journeys through first-hand experience and showing us how to survive through some of the world's most desolate landscapes.
The sides of Bear Grylls: Escape From Hell
- Real people stranded in the wild
- Archive footage and survivor interviews
- Bear Grylls facing the same dangers
Good for you if
- you want to know how people made it out of deserts and jungles alive.
- you like hearing true stories from the survivors themselves.
- you like the harshest landscapes on the planet.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch real people close to death.
- you roll your eyes at survival lessons told with big emotion.
About: endurance · luck · the will to live
14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible 2021
Documentary
In 2019, Nepalese mountain climber Nirmal “Nims” Purja set out to do the unthinkable by climbing the world’s fourteen highest summits in less than seven months. (The previous record was eight years). He called the effort “Project Possible 14/7” and saw it as a way to inspire others to strive for greater heights in any pursuit. The film follows his team as they seek to defy naysayers and push the limits of human endurance.
The sides of 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible
- A Nepalese climber racing the clock
- The fourteen highest summits in a few months
- A team of Sherpa climbers
Good for you if
- you like Nims Purja's real 2019 attempt on the world's fourteen highest peaks.
- you want views from Everest, K2 and the Himalaya.
- you like climbers pushing on through the death zone.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at speeches about nothing being impossible.
- you want a quiet, patient film, and this moves at a sprint.
About: ambition · endurance · recognition
The Dawn Wall 2017
Documentary
In an unbelievable story of perseverance, free climber Tommy Caldwell and climbing partner Kevin Jorgeson attempt to scale the impossible 3000ft Dawn Wall of El Capitan.
The sides of The Dawn Wall
- Two climbers on a three thousand foot wall
- Nineteen days living in tents hung off granite
- A climber who lost a finger
Good for you if
- you want the real footage of a climb nobody had done before.
- you like El Capitan, Yosemite and a wall of bare granite.
- you want two men sleeping on the side of a cliff for weeks to get up it.
Bad for you if
- you can't look at two men hanging hundreds of metres above the ground.
- you'd rather not watch a marriage come apart between two climbs.
About: perseverance · friendship · fear
The Summit 2013
Documentary
The Summit is a 2012 documentary film about the 2008 K2 disaster directed by Nick Ryan. It combines documentary footage with dramatized recreations of the events of the 2008 K2 disaster. On the way to and from the summit, eleven climbers died during a short time span creating one of the worst catastophes in climbing history. Much of the documentary footage was captured by Swedish mountaineer Fredrik Sträng. Sträng was planning to do a Documentary which was aborted due to the fact that he did not reach the summit. The footage was still valuable to help solving what really did happen since all the climbers had different stories about what happened.
The sides of The Summit
- The 2008 K2 disaster
- Real expedition footage mixed with reconstructions
- Climbers caught in the death zone
Good for you if
- you want to understand what it takes to stay alive near the top of K2.
- you like a real climb where every hour high on the mountain counts.
- you want a sober account of what really happened to the climbers.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch a story where real climbers die on a mountain.
- you need one clear answer, and the survivors' stories don't agree.
About: ambition · survival · grief
Free Solo 2018
Documentary
Follow Alex Honnold as he attempts to become the first person to ever free solo climb Yosemite's 3,000 foot high El Capitan wall. With no ropes or safety gear, this would arguably be the greatest feat in rock climbing history.
The sides of Free Solo
- A free climb of El Capitan with no rope
- A camera crew afraid to film a fall
- A climber who lives in a van
Good for you if
- you like holding your breath through a climb you already know the end of.
- you want the real Alex Honnold, his doubts, his girlfriend and his training.
- you like the granite wall of Yosemite filmed from every angle.
Bad for you if
- you have no interest in sport. It's two years of training for one climb.
- you need momentum, and the climb only comes after months of preparation.
About: fear · ambition · risk
Lo imposible 2012
Película
María, Henry y sus tres hijos comienzan sus vacaciones de invierno en Tailandia en busca de unos días en un paraiso tropical. Pero en la mañana del 26 de Diciembre, mientras disfrutan de sus relajantes vacaciones en la piscina tras la celebración de la Navidad y Nochebuena, un terrible rugido emerge del centro de la tierra. Mientras María se paraliza de miedo, un inmenso muro de agua oscura corre por los jardines del hotel hacia ella. Largometraje sobre el tsunami que azotó el sudeste asiático en 2004.
Las caras de Lo imposible
- Una familia de vacaciones en Tailandia
- La ola de 2004 golpeando la costa
- Una madre y un hijo buscando en un hospital
Buena para ti si
- no te importa llorar. Un chico recorre una sala de hospital abarrotada leyendo en voz alta los nombres de los desaparecidos.
- quieres una madre, un padre y tres chicos intentando encontrarse.
- quieres ver a gente aguantar después de que el agua se lo lleve todo.
Mala para ti si
- no puedes ver heridas reales y niños separados de sus padres.
- quieres una tarde tranquila y no unas vacaciones que acaban en desastre.
Temas: la supervivencia · la familia · la bondad
El único superviviente 2013
Película
Año 2005. A un equipo de élite de las fuerzas especiales SEAL del ejército norteamericano, liderados por Marcus Luttrell junto a otros tres soldados les es encomendada una peligrosa misión, la "Operación red wing": capturar o matar a un líder terrorista talibán, Admad Shad, que se esconde en una zona boscosa de Afganistán. La llegada al punto donde localizaron el objetivo se realizó sin problemas, pero pronto la situación se complicó hasta extremos inimaginables.
Las caras de El único superviviente
- Cuatro Navy SEALs en misión en Afganistán
- Una decisión sobre dejar ir a unos pastores de cabras
- Una emboscada real en las montañas
Buena para ti si
- te gusta un tiroteo largo donde cada minuto cuenta.
- te gustan las historias de soldados contadas a ras de suelo.
- quieres la historia real de Marcus Luttrell y su equipo.
Mala para ti si
- no soportas los cuerpos cayendo por las rocas ni las heridas en primer plano.
- pones los ojos en blanco ante una película de guerra hecha como homenaje a los hombres que lucharon.
Temas: la hermandad · el sacrificio · los dilemas morales
En el corazón del mar 2015
Película
En el invierno de 1820, el ballenero de Nueva Inglaterra Essex fue agredido por algo a lo que nadie podía dar crédito: una ballena de tamaño y voluntad descomunal, con un sentido de la venganza casi humano. Este hecho real que supuso un desastre marítimo fue la inspiración para Moby-Dick de Melville. Pero la novela solo contó la mitad de la historia. “En el corazón del mar” revela las horribles consecuencias del encuentro, cuando los supervivientes de la tripulación fueron forzados hasta el límite y se vieron obligados a hacer lo impensable para mantenerse vivos. Enfrentándose a las tormentas, el hambre, el pánico, y la desesperación, los hombres llegan a dudar hasta de sus creencias más profundas, desde el valor de sus vidas a la moralidad de su oficio, mientras el capitán intenta orientarse en el mar abierto y su primer oficial sigue empeñado en conquistar a la gran ballena.
Las caras de En el corazón del mar
- El ballenero Essex en 1820
- Un cachalote gigante que contraataca
- Supervivientes a la deriva en botes pequeños
Buena para ti si
- te gustan los marineros que sobreviven en el mar contra todo pronóstico.
- te gustan las tormentas y una ballena enorme en pantalla grande.
- te gusta la historia real que inspiró Moby Dick.
Mala para ti si
- no soportas el hambre extrema y lo que hacen los náufragos para sobrevivir.
- necesitas más personajes que tormentas y ballenas.
Temas: la codicia · la supervivencia · el hombre contra la naturaleza
Society of the Snow 2023
Film
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.
The sides of Society of the Snow
- A Uruguayan rugby team's plane crashing in the Andes
- Seventy two days on a glacier
- An impossible choice to stay alive
Good for you if
- you want to be moved by young men holding each other together.
- you want to feel the cold, the hunger and the avalanche.
- you want the 1972 crash told with respect for those who died.
Bad for you if
- you can't face death and the survivors' choice on screen.
- nearly two and a half hours is too much for one evening.
About: faith · brotherhood · grief · survival
Touching the Void 2003
Documentary
The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
The sides of Touching the Void
- Two climbers on a peak in the Peruvian Andes
- A rope cut above a crevasse
- A man crawling back to camp with a broken leg
Good for you if
- you want to know how someone gets off that mountain alive.
- you grip the chair even though the two men telling it are sitting right there.
- you like the men who lived it telling it themselves.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch heights, ice and a drop into the dark.
- you want something warm and low-stakes tonight.
About: survival · guilt · friendship
Fire of Love 2022
Documentary
A doomed love triangle between intrepid French scientists Katia and Maurice Krafft, and their beloved volcanoes.
The sides of Fire of Love
- Katia and Maurice Krafft, a married couple of volcanologists
- Archive footage of eruptions and lava flows
- A life spent getting as close as possible
Good for you if
- you like a real love story shared between two people and their volcanoes.
- you like standing next to lava through someone else's camera.
- you like eruptions filmed from far closer than anyone should be.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather not watch a couple you know will die on a volcano.
- you find grainy footage from the 1970s and 1980s dated.
About: love · curiosity · risk · the forces of nature
Hacia rutas salvajes 2007
Película
A principios de los años noventa, el joven e idealista Christopher McCandless adopta el nombre de Alexander Supertramp, deja sus posesiones y sus ahorros a la beneficencia y abandona el mundo civilizado con rumbo a la salvaje Alaska para entrar en contacto con la Naturaleza y descubrir el verdadero sentido de la vida. Adaptación del best-seller de Jon Krakauer, basado en las notas del diario de McCandless.
Las caras de Hacia rutas salvajes
- Un graduado que lo regala todo
- Un viaje por carretera por Estados Unidos
- Un autobús abandonado en Alaska
Buena para ti si
- te gustan los grandes paisajes y la vida salvaje.
- te gusta un joven en busca de sentido.
- te gusta la historia real de un graduado que regaló sus ahorros y viajó a dedo hasta Alaska.
Mala para ti si
- dos horas y media es demasiado para tu noche.
- no soportas ver sufrir a unos padres. Su familia espera dos años sin noticias suyas.
Temas: la libertad · la familia · la naturaleza