Name: I Shouldn't Be Alive
Released: 2005-10-28T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Amy Bailey, Les Stroud, Noah Huntley

TV Show · History · Reality

The award-winning docudrama series tells the extraordinary stories of ordinary people who found themselves in epic survival situations. First-person accounts from the survivors combine with re-enactments to bring back to life the emotional and physical journey they faced in their fight to stay alive.

2005 · 49m

Starring Amy Bailey, Les Stroud, Noah Huntley

Director Nick Copus

EPISODE 1

Shark Survivor

1982. Five people get caught in a tropical storm and their yacht sinks. They have to survive in the middle of the ocean on a raft with absolutely no survival equipment. To their horror they find the area of the ocean to be infested with sharks.

43m
EPISODE 2

Lost in the Snow

A U.S. Army Private, his wife, and their five-month old son travel to a funeral, but on the way there, they miss the sign that leads to the city and instead go into an uninhabited national park which is closed for the winter.

43m
EPISODE 3

Escape From the Amazon

Three friends go to the Amazon for a trip but things get nasty when their guide leads them to jeopardy. As the four (three friends and guide) split into two groups, one pair faces disaster at every turn, while the other two are never heard from again.

44m
EPISODE 4

Swept Away

Two friends go kayaking in the Strait of Georgia. When the tide comes in, one friend falls from his kayak and fears that he will end up in the Pacific Ocean.

43m
EPISODE 5

Kidnap in the Killing Fields

A man involved in demining Cambodia accidentally steps on a landmine and blows off his leg. Two years earlier, he was kidnapped by a murderous group of Khmer Rouge.

43m
EPISODE 6

Jaws of Death

A man crashes his plane in the African savannah. With legs broken in a total of six different places, he has to make it alive past lions and other dangerous predators in a state of intense pain and loss of leg mobility.

43m