The History Channel documentary is now available on DVD. I got mine last week. I don't see it as "better" than Stranded or Alive:After 20 Years (also called "Miracle in the Andes" on You Tube), but different and supplementary to them. It includes new interviews and perspectives from other experts (Ed Viesturs, the man who summited Mt. Everest multiple times and all the world's 8000-meter peaks without using oxygen; medical experts in cold weather and altitude issues; Uruguayan Air Force personnel, mountaineer Ricardo Pena who was the first to trek up to the impact site and retrieve Eduardo Strauch's coat and documents, and many more).
It's moving, informative, and extremely well done. Worth every penny. It has a few short bonus items of interest, including some brief interviews with Nando's sister, the son of Dr. and Mrs. Nicola, Laura Canessa and more. There's an interesting little tour of the business Nando's father started in Montevideo 50-odd years ago, and a snippet about the trek Ricardo Pena and Eduardo Strauch organize to the crash scene every February, and their plans to have a museum exhibit about the crash, featuring some of the relics recovered.
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