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20 Episodes 2008 - 2010
Episode 0
Sun, Aug 30, 200944 mins
This special profiles the extraordinary stories of three ordinary people who literally died and then came back to life.
Episode 1
Mon, Dec 1, 200844 mins
College students Daniel and Danielle's bucolic riverside stroll is interrupted by a cruel killer/rapist in a truck whose attack dog proved kinder than he is. Fortunately, this repeat offender will finally be jailed for the next several centuries. Wisconsin brothers James and David look forward to snowmobiling after the first sufficient blanket of the winter. Unfortunately, the specific paths to ride on and the river are often indistinguishable, as is truly being "on thin ice." A real-life test of biblical proportions, one brother must be willing to sacrifice his life for the other--should it come to this. Pretty Chicagoan Karli is beaten and doused with battery acid in her parking garage by a gang. Minus "concrete" evidence, she deduces the leader is punishing her shady ex-BF, and moves 20 miles away. The ringleader can only be jailed on unrelated drug charges. Little justice for Karli, as months later, history repeats itself, yet far worse. Enduring over 200 operations in two years, and with accomplices free, we can only hope for Karli's continued--survival.
Episode 2
Mon, Dec 8, 200844 mins
A heart-wrenching drama unfolds when a man struggles to save himself and his family from drowning in frigid waters and a female prison officer uses her strength and quick thinking skills to stay alive during the longest prison siege in U.S. history.
Episode 3
Mon, Dec 15, 200845 mins
An ordinary Friday at the Seattle headquarters of the Jewish Federation turns nightmarish when a crazed gunman demands an end to the war in Iraq and shoots four workers. A criminal justice teacher is shot multiple times and poisoned twice by an unknown assailant. A young woman swims through shark-infested waters in a desperate bid for survival.
Episode 4
Mon, Dec 22, 200844 mins
A single mother is kidnapped, stabbed and left for dead by three hardened criminals and her heroic survival is unforgettable. A long-haul truck driver must drive his 40-ton rig through the biggest fire in Utah History. A woman is stalked and brutally abducted by an ex-boyfriend.
Episode 5
45 mins
After five ruthless highjackers take control of an EgyptAir flight and begin executing passengers, a woman silently says goodbye to her loved ones when the hijackers pick her to be the next one to die. A surfer loses half of the blood in his body when a great white shark clamps its jaws around his entire torso and shakes him like a rag doll. A young mother is repeatedly assaulted and strangled in front of her 3-year-old son.
Episode 6
Mon, Jan 12, 200944 mins
A couple hiking in a national park must fight for their lives when they're attacked by a ferocious mountain lion. A young mother and her cousin are shot by a deranged gunman. A quick stop at a gas station threatens the life of a woman when she's taken hostage by a violent criminal on the run from the police.
Episode 7
Mon, Jan 19, 200945 mins
A case of mistaken identity triggers a violent home invasion for Darren and Chastity who awake one night to find a man armed with a baseball bat in their bedroom. The gang member hits Darren over the head with the bat and then begins viciously attacking him. The arrival of their 11year-old son Dustin seems to calm the man who locks the terrified family in their bathroom as he ransacks their house. With his skull fractured and unable to protect his wife and son, Darren slips in and out of consciousness. The couple's sense of helplessness worsens when Dustin is taken from the bathroom and injected with methamphetamine then forced to help the man load their possessions onto a truck. As the second night approaches and Darren's condition worsens Chastity ventures out and manages to raise the alarm.
Episode 8
Mon, Feb 2, 200945 mins
A convenience store worker plays dead to escape her abductor. An endurance athlete faces her greatest challenge ever after falling 60 feet in a remote canyon. A couple put their lives on the line to protect their children in a home invasion.
Episode 9
Mon, Feb 9, 200945 mins
A mother of three survives a prolonged attack from her estranged husband. A newly pregnant woman is horrifically injured when she is caught in a fish processing machine on a boat 160 miles from land. Ten people are held hostage in a library by a man armed with a bomb and a gun.
Episode 10
Mon, Feb 16, 200944 mins
A heavily pregnant woman is viciously attacked by a woman obsessed with making the unborn child her own. A couple cling to the rafters of their home as Hurricane Ike unleashes its fury on them. A woman fends off a man who has hidden in her family home for days before brutally attacking her.
Episode 11
45 mins
A mother is jammed into a trash can filled with snow and left to die by her ex-husband. A young woman scrambles to escape a gruesome pile up of injured bodies after an escalator malfunctions at a sports stadium. A bar owner is savagely set upon by three men in a random attack carried out as part of a gang initiation.
Episode 12
Sun, Jul 19, 200944 mins
Three survivors from the ill-fated UA Flight 232 relive the terrifying moments leading up to and after one of America's worst ever aviation disasters. A young woman violently assaulted by two men displays extraordinary courage to flee her attackers.
Episode 13
Sun, Jul 26, 200945 mins
A young woman is brutally assaulted then set on fire by her attacker. A man is forced to amputate part of leg after it is caught in a drive shaft. An act of kindness backfires on a long distance motorist who is left fighting for his life at the roadside.
Episode 14
Sun, Aug 2, 200944 mins
With her six and nine year old daughters, Dawn is minding a friend's beach house when four armed men arrive threatening to shoot Dawn in front of her terrified children. When one of the men forces Dawn at gunpoint to an upstairs bedroom and demands that she take her clothes off, she refuses instead offering to take him to an ATM.
Episode 15
Sun, Aug 9, 200942 mins
While working in a remote valley in Bella Coola, British Columbia, Brent Case is attacked by a massive grizzly bear that rips the scalp off the back of his head. He survives by playing dead. Susan's rural home is invaded by three masked gunmen who shoot both her and her husband. She grabs a gun from her bedroom and shoots one of the intruders. Another flees with the getaway vehicle. The third steals a truck and runs over his accomplice who was lying in the front yard. Denise is attacked in her apartment by a man posing as a maintenance man. Despite a skull fracture, she never stopped screaming.
Episode 16
Sun, Aug 16, 200945 mins
A plucky teenager is shot after finding his mother being brutally attacked by her ex boyfriend, a diver is lost at sea for 23 hours before being rescued and a woman is shot through the eyes and blinded by an abductor but survives.
Episode 17
Sun, Aug 23, 200944 mins
While out walking his dog in the woods, Timothy is attacked by a 400-pound grizzly bear as his faithful dog valiantly tries to distract the bear. Scott and Sean enjoy a fishing trip on the Appalachian Trail when a drifter arrives at their campsite, pulls a gun, and shoots them both. And Stacey and her best friend must call upon all their inner strength and remain calm when an attacker invades their apartment and seems ready to kill them both.
Episode 18
Sun, Aug 30, 200945 mins
Roger and Dena's home overlooking the San Pasqual Valley is everything they've ever dreamed of until Roger awakes one day to find a 40-foot wall of fire racing up the valley towards their house.
Episode 19
Sun, Aug 29, 201045 mins
A missionary working in Haiti is ambushed, shot and held for ransom by a gang. A tunneler returns to an underground shaft minutes after escaping to rescue two colleagues from the flooded cavity.