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I Shouldn't Be Alive (2005)

I Shouldn't Be Alive poster
Genre
documentary television program
Country
United States
Length
6 seasons, 60 episodes
Rated
B-15
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 27 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This documentary series recounts true stories of people who survived extreme situations in remote wilderness. Each episode uses interviews and reenactments to show how individuals made life-saving decisions against the odds.

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What happens

I Shouldn't Be Alive is a documentary television series made by Darlow Smithson Productions, a UK-based production company, that featured accounts of individuals or groups caught in life-threatening scenarios away from civilization in natural environments. The show aired on multiple networks in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, India, Iran, Pakistan and South Africa. The show was compiled using footage of interviews and graphic re-enactments of the situation. The main focus of the show is the re-enactment, with narration and commentary by the participant(s). Each episode also explained how the person(s) survived the ordeal against typical odds and outlined the decisions they had made that kept them alive. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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