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Ordinary People, Impossible Odds

A run of true-life ordeals where staying alive comes down to sheer endurance and the people who refuse to leave anyone behind — watch them together when you want to be reminded what human beings actually do at the edge.

Mostly crowd favourites — gripping, accessible, well-reviewed — but every one is harrowing and drawn from real deaths and near-deaths, so save them for when you can take real peril and grief.