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I Am Alive: Surviving the Andes Plane Crash

1h 28m | 2010 | TV-PG | CC

In 1972, a plane carrying 45 rugby team members crashed in the remote Andes Mountains. For 72 days, the world thought they were dead. But what these 16 survivors endured was far worse than death. One of these men recounts his story of extreme survival.