It is one of the most astonishing and inspiring survival tales of all time. On October 13, 1972, a young rugby team from Uruguay, boarded a plane for a match in Chile — and then vanished into thin air. Two days before Christmas, 16 of the 45 passengers miraculously resurfaced, having managed to survive for 72 days. Thirty-five years later, the survivors returned to the crash site to recount their harrowing story of endurance and friendship in this visually breathtaking and riveting documentary from filmmaker (and childhood friend of the survivors) Gonzalo Arijon. Previously documented in the 1973 worldwide bestseller Alive (and the 1993 movie of the same name), this astonishing true story finally gets the cinematic treatment it deserves.

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