This show used to be on the Discovery Channel but has since moved to the Animal Planet Channel. There was a great narrator and some really neat special effects and bits of scientific educational stuff presented with the Discovery channel version that I prefer, but some show is better than no show.
This is an hour long show dedicated to telling just one story of an individual, a couple, or family/group of people who went through some terrible stuff where they really should've died, but somehow survived (hence the shows title). The show balances the people recounting their stories, with actors re-enacting what actually happened to them. The amazing thing is, the actors are always really good in these roles and it's never cheesy or fake looking. I mean, of course, they can't put the actors in dangerous situations, but with what they can do, it's very good.
This show, I can definitely learn things from and it's not as dark, most of the time, as I Survived on the Bio channel.
The most amazing story I saw in the years that I've been watching is a man who lost his boat in the middle of the ocean and survived, by himself, in a very very small rescue boat for 76 days. He had something called a Solar Cell that helped collect clean water from salt water, and he made a spear to catch and eat fish. Just amazing that he survived this ordeal. He lost so much weight and could barely move in this little boat, he couldn't even stand up in it or much of anything but sit cross legged.
If you've never seen this show, you are missing out! It's very well done, interesting, amazing, and the Discovery channel ones are pretty educational. Animal Planet stays close to the original version but it's not quite as educational. Animal Planet airs brand new episodes every Wednesday night about 9 or 10 central time. It's in syndication on a lot of other channels including Discovery and the Green Planet channel if you have it.
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