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Alive: 20 Years Later

  • 1993
  • 51m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
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Alive: 20 Years Later (1993)
Documentary

In 1972 an airplane carrying an Uruguayan rugby team crashed in the Andes Mountains, killing many of those on board. After exhausting what little food supply they had, the survivors realized... Read allIn 1972 an airplane carrying an Uruguayan rugby team crashed in the Andes Mountains, killing many of those on board. After exhausting what little food supply they had, the survivors realized that in order to stay alive, they would have to eat their dead comrades.In 1972 an airplane carrying an Uruguayan rugby team crashed in the Andes Mountains, killing many of those on board. After exhausting what little food supply they had, the survivors realized that in order to stay alive, they would have to eat their dead comrades.

  • Director
    • Jill Fullerton-Smith
  • Writer
    • Jill Fullerton-Smith
  • Stars
    • Martin Sheen
    • Laura Canessa
    • Roberto Canessa
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.2/10
    156
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    • Director
      • Jill Fullerton-Smith
    • Writer
      • Jill Fullerton-Smith
    • Stars
      • Martin Sheen
      • Laura Canessa
      • Roberto Canessa
    • 2User reviews
    • 1Critic review
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
      • 1 nomination total

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    Martin Sheen
    Martin Sheen
    • Narrator
    • (voice)
    Laura Canessa
    • Self
    Roberto Canessa
    • Self
    Sergio Catalan
    • Self
    Pancho Delgado
    • Self
    Daniel Fernandez
    Daniel Fernandez
    • Self
    Bobby François
    • Self
    • (as Bobby Francois)
    Roy Harley
    • Self
    Coche Inciarte
    • Self
    Peter James
    • Self - Director of Photography
    Kathleen Kennedy
    Kathleen Kennedy
    • Self - Producer
    Alvaro Mangino
    • Self
    Frank Marshall
    Frank Marshall
    • Self - Director
    Robin Mounsey
    • Self - Mountain Safety & Helicopter Coordinator
    Carlitos Paez
    • Self
    Nando Parrado
    • Self
    Father Rojas
    • Self
    Adolfo Strauch
    • Self
    • Director
      • Jill Fullerton-Smith
    • Writer
      • Jill Fullerton-Smith
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    10MarHeike

    Recommended viewing !

    After watching the movie "Alive" one will be interested in this one. It has a lot of interviews with the real survivors, pictures of their hometown and Rugby in it. It tells us more about their life after the accident, and it shows the making of the movie on location in the Rocky Mountains. Very interesting if you want to know more about the story! Well worth buying.
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    Over sixteen survivors sixteen distinct stories that haunting them on every single day, it ought be in oblivion until they are still alive!!

    Yesterday I've watched this valuable and enlighten documentary about the unforgettable accident at Andes Mountain in winter season on 13 October of 1972 whereby a small airplane crashed over the freezing Andes mountains, it brings many originals photographs taken by own stranded persons on the spot, they were 45 passengers including the pilots that died at once on fatal disaster, mostly are relatives of the famous Rugby team that has a prearranged match at Chile, they never reach at final destination.

    They stayed there for 72 days, meanwhile a task force of many Uruguay neighbors countries stopped the searching after a couple weeks or so, thus hereinafter committing the unholy anthropophagy, according reliable sources just three of them were allowed to take chunky of frozen human flesh to feed all survives at its moment, such care is due anyone to known whoever the body is the supplier, it keeps on secrecy, after all mostly of them are relatives, it was an interesting and accuracy news.

    Among 16 survivors many of them keep on the shadows for obvious reasons, due they were neighbors at Carrasco's high class community, one of them today is a cattle rancher and tries avoid by any means any question about that, actually when someone asking for if he was one of remaining he dissembles saying that such guy is a cousin or a kinsman or something alike, it exposes how it has been haunting those unfortunate human beings seeing the ghosts on the dark whom their appease the starvation thru their dead corpses, the own self-called hero Roberto Canessa told in the interview that of sixteen survives have sixteen distinct stories, think about!!

    Thanks for reading.

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    First watch: 2025 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.5.

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    • Release date
      • January 30, 1993 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Alive: Twenty Years Later
    • Production company
      • The Kennedy/Marshall Company
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      • 51m
    • Color
      • Black and White
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      • 1.85 : 1

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