I Survived... (2008)

Genre

documentary film, reality television

Country

United States

Length

6 seasons, 119 episodes

Rated

TV-PG

Rating

8.5 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Real people tell the camera in their own words how they got through a life threatening event like an attack or being lost in the wilderness. There are no actors or staged scenes just the survivors describing what happened and what helped them keep going.

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What happens

I Survived... is a documentary television series produced by NHNZ that aired on Lifetime Movie Network and, as of 2022, can be seen on Court TV. The show allows survivors to explain in their own words how they overcame life-threatening circumstances without dramatic reenactments. Most episodes feature two or three separate stories involving scenarios such as kidnapping, assaults, or getting injured or stranded in a remote location. The format shows the survivor speaking into the camera to describe their experiences, with occasional use of title cards to summarize events or photographs of locations or people mentioned by the narrators. The official website states: What would you do if you were confronted with death? What gives someone the strength to survive? Is it luck, chance, instinct? In a stripped-down, simple-yet-cinematic interview style, I Survived... allows survivors to explain, in their own words, how they overcame unbelievable circumstances – offering insight into what got them through the experience that changed their lives forever. I Survived... is storytelling at its most dramatic, most basic, and most honest.The series premiered on March 24, 2008 and aired its last episode on January 26, 2015. Its sister series "I Survived... Beyond and Back" (in which people share their near death experiences) debuted in 2011. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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