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2) Cast away
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Formats
Description
Chuck Noland is a FedEx systems engineer whose personal and professional life are ruled by the clock. He has a girlfriend, Kelly, with whom he is deeply in love with and family he hardly sees. When work intrudes on Christmas Eve, Chuck has a quick gift exchange in the car and kisses Kelly goodbye. He boards a delivery plane going overseas which gets caught in a horrendous storm and crashes onto the shores of a deserted tropical island in the Pacific....
Author
Series
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
p2003
Description
Young Antipholus of Syracuse is searching the world for his identical twin brother, separated from him at birth. With him is his servant Dromio, who lost his twin brother at the same time. The pair arrive in Ephesus where, unkeknownst to them, their twins are living.
Author
Series
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
p2003
Description
Prospero, wise Duke of Milan, has been deposed by Antonio, his wicked brother and exiled with his daughter Miranda to a mysterious island. But Prospero possesses supernatural powers. Composed at the end of Shakespeare's career, the play contains some of his most lyrical dramatic verse.
5) Lifeboat
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
When an their vessel is torpedoed in the Atlantic Ocean during WWII, eight survivors find refuge in a lifeboat. Short on food and water, their situation is further complicated when they rescue a crew member from the German submarine that sank their ship.
6) Survive
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Two ordinary people, Jane and Paul, are the only survivors of a plane crash that isolates them on a remote snow-covered mountain. Soon this unlikely duo will have to find a way to get back to society, all while Jane struggles with her demons and Paul does everything he can to keep her safe.
7) Ava
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
A deadly assassin is forced to fight for her own survival when a job goes terribly wrong.
8) The whale
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
On November 20, 1820, in the Southeast Pacific, an enormous 85-foot sperm whale rammed and sank Nantucket whale ship The Essex and set its crew adrift more than a thousand miles from land. Only eight members of the young crew survived starvation, thirst and exposure, rescued at last by British whale ships three months later.
9) Life of Pi
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Formats
Description
Based on the bestselling novel by Yann Martel. A young Pi Patel, overcoming a cataclysmic shipwreck, finds himself stranded on a lifeboat with the only survivor, a ferocious Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Limited quantities will included bonus DVD version of the film.
10) Jungle
Publisher
Momentum Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
When an adventurer goes deep into the Amazon jungle with two friends and a mysterious guide, their trip turns into a struggle for survival.
11) Mine
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
A US soldier stranded in the desert after a failed mission accidentally steps on a land mine and now has to fight for survival in the hostile environment without moving from the spot until the arrival of the rescue convoy.
12) Greenland
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
A family fights for survival as a planet-killing comet races to Earth. John Garrity, his estranged wife Allison, and young son Nathan make a perilous journey to their only hope for sanctuary.
14) 65
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"After a catastrophic crash on an unknown planet, pilot Mills quickly discovers he's actually stranded on Earth... 65 million years ago. Now, with only one chance at rescue, Mills and the only other survivor, Koa, must make their way across an unknown terrain riddled with dangerous prehistoric creatures in an epic fight to survive" --Container.
15) The hunt
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen - for a very specific purpose - The Hunt.
Formats
Description
A return to the world of the Road Warrior, Max Rockatansky. Haunted by his turbulent past, he believes the best way to survive is to wander alone. Nevertheless, he becomes swept up with a group fleeing across the Wasteland in a War Rig driven by an elite Imperator, Furiosa. They are escaping a Citadel tyrannized by the Immortan Joe, from whom something irreplaceable has been taken. Enraged, the Warlord with his gangs, pursues the rebels ruthlessly...
18) Deliverance
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Four ordinary men, in two canoes, descending a river they've only seen as a squiggly line on a map, determined to test themselves against a wilderness they only think they understand, must fight for their lives against some sadistic mountain men.
19) Titanic
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Formats
Description
A timeless love story born of tragedy that created an international phenomenon. This epic masterpiece is destined to sweep audiences anew into the journey of a lifetime. Includes bonus features.
20) The Martian
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
After a bad storm blows across Mars Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead and left behind. Now stuck on a hostile planet he must find a way to signal to Earth and in the meantime, survive on limited supplies.
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