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  2. Cast Away - Wikipedia

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    Cast Away is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy. Hanks plays a FedEx troubleshooter who is stranded on a desert island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific, and the plot focuses on his desperate attempts to survive and return home. Initial ...

  3. Castaway - Wikipedia

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    Survivor Type, a 1982 short story by Stephen King about a shipwrecked surgeon who ends up eating parts of his own body to survive. Lord of the Flies, a novel by William Golding, and several movie versions. Hatchet, a novel that follows the life of a teenage boy as he survives in the Canadian wilderness after the plane he was on crashes.

  4. Category : Films about aviation accidents or incidents

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    The Captain (2019 film) A Captive in the Land; Cast Away; The Christmas Tree (1969 film) Con Air; Concorde Affaire '79; The Concorde... Airport '79; Crash (1978 film) Crash Landing (1958 film) Crash Landing (1999 film) Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501; Crocodile Island (film) The Crowded Sky; A Cry in the Wild

  5. Castaway (film) - Wikipedia

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    Castaway is a 1986 British biographical-drama film directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring Amanda Donohoe and Oliver Reed. [2] The screenplay was by Allan Scott, adapted from the eponymous 1984 book by Lucy Irvine, telling of her experiences of staying for a year with writer Gerald Kingsland on the isolated island of Tuin, between New Guinea and Australia.

  6. Is Yellowjackets based on a true story? - AOL

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    Showtime's Yellowjackets is loosely based on a devastating plane crash.. In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed in the Andes mountains, leaving only 16 survivors. To stay alive in the ...

  7. Against the Sun - Wikipedia

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    Against the Sun is a 2014 American survival drama film. Based on a true story from World War II, the film was written, produced, and directed by Brian Falk and starred Garret Dillahunt, Tom Felton, and Jake Abel. The film was released via video on demand on January 23, 2015.

  8. Aviation accidents and incidents in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Deals with the crash of a commercial plane from the fictional Oceanic Airlines. This theme was inspired by the film Cast Away. [58] 2012 Elementary: Season 1 episode "Flight Risk", aired November 8, 2012 A small plane crash turns out to be a cover-up for a murder. Holmes deduces that one of the four victims was murdered beforehand by the lack ...

  9. See photos of the real 1972 Andes plane crash that inspired ...

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    "Society of the Snow" is earning raves for its a ccurate depiction of the terrifying 1972 plane crash in the Andes mountains that involved a Uruguayan rugby team.. The new Netflix drama, directed ...