Any movies/documentaries from true stories like this??

I strongly recommend Touching the Void, an excellent 2003 documentary (blends interviews with the principals and authentic re-enactments) by British director Kevin MacDonald. If you can get the DVD or Blu-Ray, there are some additional features worth watching that provide follow-up on the characters and some background info.

Like "Alive," there is a book that tells the survivor story (same title, author is Joe Simpson).

See here:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379557/

Here's the book: http://www.amazon.com/Touching-Void-Story-Miraculous-Survival/dp/00607 30552/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1378317691&sr=1-1&amp ;keywords=touching+the+void


Another you might like (but it deviates a long way from the true story in order to romanticize the character) is "Into The Wild" which you can find out about here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758758/?ref_=sr_2

However, you should see this film side by side with a documentary about the main character:

http://www.tifilms.com/wild/call_intro.htm

The two together provide a balanced and insightful picture. I bought the DVDs but you can find Call of the Wild (or sections of it) on YouTube or Dailymotion.com. It's been shown on PBS so you might find it there, too.


Finally, you might enjoy a film by David Breashears about the 1996 Everest disaster that was shown on Frontline and is (I believe) viewable from their website. The title is Storm Over Everest.

I just checked the PBS website here:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/everest/

You can view an excerpt, but not the whole film; there's lots of interesting additional material. I got the film from the public library and you probably can too (it's on Netflix, also).

Another amazing book that is a must read is Into Thin Air amazing book

Not sure if your familiar with the Antarctica explorer Earnest Shackleton. If your not, I highly recommend "Shackleton", a 2 part mini-series from 2002. Pretty amazing story of survival, especially the open-boat journey that really boggles the mind when you consider the distance and weather conditions they had to endure.

Another one you might be interested in is the 1990 movie "Anything to Survive". It's actually on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_WM2y3gT7c

I seen a documentary about the actual events the movie is based upon and it's pretty incredible to say the least.

Watch the TV series 'I shouldn't be alive' There are various stories on that show. One involved a guy stuck in a lifeboat for over 2 months.

The survival film is a film genre in which one or more characters make an effort at physical survival. It often overlaps with other film genres. It is a subgenre of the adventure film, along with swashbuckler films, war films, and safari films. Survival films are darker than most other adventure films which usually star a single hero. The films tend to be "located primarily in a contemporary context" so film audiences are familiar with the setting, meaning the characters' activities are less romanticized.

Thomas Sobchack compared the survival film to romance: "They both emphasize the heroic triumph over obstacles which threaten social order and the reaffirmation of predominant social values such as fair play and respect for merit and cooperation." The author said survival films "identify and isolate a microcosm of society", such as the surviving group from the plane crash in The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) or those on the overturned ocean liner in The Poseidon Adventure (1972). Sobchack explained, "Most of the time in a survival film is spent depicting the process whereby the group, cut off from the securities and certainties of the ordinary support networks of civilized life, forms itself into a functioning, effective unit." The group often varies in types of characters, sometimes to the point of caricature. While women have historically been stereotyped in such films, they "often play a decisive role in the success or failure of the group".

Please click on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_film

The following survival films are listed alphabetically.

Film Year
54 Days 2014
127 Hours 2010
A Hijacking 2012
Alive 1993
All Is Lost 2013
Apocalypto 2006
Apollo 13 1995
As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me 2001
Beyond 1921
The Book of Eli 2010
Buried 2010
Carnage Park 2015
Captain Phillips 2013
Cast Away 2000
Cold Mountain 2003
Come and See 1985
Countdown 1968
The Dark Hour 2007
Daylight 1996
Deliverance 1972
Dersu Uzala 1975
The Divide 2012
The Edge 1997
Escape from Alcatraz 1979
Essential Killing 2010
Five Came Back 1939
The Flight of the Phoenix 1965
Flight of the Phoenix 2004
Frozen 2010
Gravity 2013
The Grey 2012
Hell in the Pacific 1968
The Hunted 2003
I Am Legend 2007
The Impossible 2012
Inferno 1953
Interstellar 2014
Into Thin Air: Death on Everest 1997
Into the Wild 2007
Iron Ridge 2008
The Last Voyage 1960
Life of Pi 2012
Lifeboat 1944
Lone Survivor 2013
Marooned 1969
Man in the Wilderness 1971
My Favorite Wife 1940
The Naked Prey 1965
The Omega Man 1971
On the Beach 1959
Open Water 2003
Pandorum 2009
Panic in Year Zero! 1962
Pitch Black 2000
Planet of the Apes 1968
The Poseidon Adventure 1972
Quest for Fire 1981
Rabbit-Proof Fence 2002
Rescue Dawn 2006
The Road 2009
Sanctum 2011
Sands of the Kalahari 1965
Scenic Route 2013
Seven Waves Away 1957
The Savage Is Loose 1974
The Snow Walker 2003
Soylent Green 1973
Stagecoach 1939
Survival Quest 1989
Swiss Family Robinson 1960
Teenage Cave Man 1958
Touching the Void 2003
The Pianist 2002
The Ultimate Warrior 1975
The Wall 2012
The War Game 1965
The Way Back 2010
The World, the Flesh and the Devil 1959
World Trade Center 2006
Zero Population Growth 1972

Whaaaat?!

I am gobsmacked that no one has mentioned PBS' American Experience documentary on The Donner Party that was aired sometime in the '90s.