I Survived...
Chilling first-hand accounts from people who have survived life-threatening situations, allowing survivors to describe the events that unfolded as they tried to get out of these extreme situations alive.
- 2008-2014
- 7 seasons
- Biography Channel
- Documentary
- TV-14
Chilling first-hand accounts from people who have survived life-threatening situations, allowing survivors to describe the events that unfolded as they tried to get out of these extreme situations alive.
Season 5 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 2012 - 2013
Episode 1
Shannon/Ken/Angela
Sun, Oct 7, 2012 42 mins
A woman and her boyfriend are shot by her ex-partner and left to die in a burning house. A man pinned by his arm and his braked van faces amputation to escaped. And a young mother whose neck is sawn open by an intruder place dead in order to live.
Episode 2
Debbie/Ray/Jasmine
Sun, Oct 14, 2012 42 mins
A woman is kidnapped from her house and raped in the woods outside it. A man survives a plane crash floating in the Pacific Ocean for 10 hours. A jealous ex husband kills his ex and two others but one woman survives being shot six times by playing dead.
Episode 3
Gilles/Angela and Richard/Jeffrey
Sun, Oct 21, 2012 42 mins
A fake internet date brings a man face to face with a would-be serial killer.
Episode 4
Kim/John/Charlene
Sun, Oct 28, 2012 42 mins
A young aspiring model is attacked by a neighbor that she thought was her friend. A man is kidnapped in the jungle and held for hostage. Robbers hold a family at gunpoint in their home.
Episode 5
A.J./Carolyn and Stacy/Lynne
Sun, Nov 4, 2012 42 mins
A lone gunman shoots A.J. and his dad in the mall parking lot . He then shoots Carolyn, Stacy and Kristen in the mall card shop. Lynne is evacuated from a cruise ship by lifeboat in the middle of the Indian ocean during a storm.
Episode 6
Natasha/Tim/Kellie
Sun, Nov 11, 2012 42 mins
Natasha was ambushed by a gunman as she entered her apartment building and raped at gunpoint. Due to a backlog of 17,000 unprocessed rape kits in New York City, her rapist wasn't identified until 14 years later. Tim survived a 2007 chemical plant explosion in Jacksonville, Florida. Kellie was attacked and raped by an intruder in her apartment in Orlando, Florida and had to wait 3 years before the DNA evidence was processed, identifying her rapist.
Episode 7
Audrey/Todd/Kimberley
Sun, Nov 25, 2012 43 mins
A woman's estranged husband attacks her with a knife, hammer, and fire. A diabetic man gets lost in a Idaho snowstorm after wrecking in the wilderness. A woman is attacked in her home after her husband leaves for the day.
Episode 8
The Taliban: Jere
Sun, Dec 2, 2012 41 mins
A journalist for CBS is captured by the Taliban when he is in their country looking to do a story on them.
Episode 9
Tricia and Linae/Jason/Mary
Sun, Dec 9, 2012 42 mins
Two girls are abducted by two armed gunmen after they shot their parents and grandmother. A snowmobiler survives an avalanche. A former employee holds his ex boss hostage because he has a crazy fantasy of a life with her.
Episode 10
The Norway Massacre: Sofie/Adrian/Magnus/Rebekka
Sun, Dec 16, 2012 43 mins
Two hours after detonating a massive car bomb in Norway's capital, Oslo, the bomber Anders Behring Breivik, now disguised as a policeman, makes his way to Utoya Island where 530 teenagers are attending a summer camp. During an 80 minute rampage he stalks and shoots the defenceless teenagers. Sofie, Adrian, Rebekka and Magnus survive the massacre, but 69 others die.
Episode 11
Louie and Wade/Sayeh
Sun, Dec 30, 2012 43 mins
Two forest workers are attacked by a grizzly bear, leaving one of the men scalped. An eight-year-old girl and her younger sister are abducted by their mother s pedophile ex-boyfriend, who then rapes the older girl repeatedly.
Episode 12
John/Kevin/Helena
Sun, Mar 3, 2013 43 mins
After losing his federal lawsuit against the city of Kirkwood, a disgruntled contractor shows up at a city council meeting with a gun in each hand, shooting several people point blank. John is able to escape after hitting the gunman with a chair. Kevin clings to the hull of a 38-foot catamaran after it capsizes during a storm near Bermuda. 17-year-old Helena is abducted at knife point and raped. Despite immediately reporting the rape to the police, the evidence was not tested until 14 years later when she sought rape crisis advocacy. Her attacker was then quickly caught and sentenced to 25 years in prison. Helena now works in rape crisis advocacy, helping other victims of sexual assault.
Episode 13
Brent and Hanna/Miranda and Karen
Sun, Mar 10, 2013 45 mins
A stockbroker is shot five times by a former client on a shooting rampage. Two young sisters endure over four hours in an icy Alaskan lake after the boat they are on sinks. And a woman is abducted at gunpoint by a man with a grudge against her family.
Episode 14
Hostage: Keith and Marc
Sun, Mar 17, 2013 43 mins
A routine drug surveillance mission over the Colombian jungle turns into a nightmare when Keith and Marc's plane crash-lands and they are captured by FARC guerillas and held hostage for five grueling years.
Episode 15
Amy/Trish and Darrell
Sun, Mar 24, 2013 43 mins
A 25-year-old woman is brutally assaulted in her car by a co-worker who has asked her for a ride home; he then drives her to a secluded park where he sexually assaults her again, beats her with a branch and leaves her for dead.
Episode 16
Angel/Elyse/Richard
Sun, Mar 31, 2013 43 mins
Two best friends find themselves targets for a crazed gunman who lures them to his apartment building. A professional skier seeking untracked powder snow does all the right things but still gets swept away by an avalanche.
Episode 17
Morgan and Aaron/David/Amanda
Sun, Apr 7, 2013 43 mins
Two young Minor League ball players are hogtied and robbed at gunpoint in their hotel during Spring Training. A fishing boat carrying a crew of 26 catches fire and explodes in the icy Bering Sea.
Episode 18
Kristen/Kimball/Thadius
Sun, Apr 14, 2013 43 mins
A 19-year-old student is dragged into a car at gunpoint and taken to a basement where she is chained up and sexually assaulted. A man swims over two miles in strong currents to reach the shore after his fishing boat sinks in the middle of a lake.
Episode 19
MIke/Chris/Neza
Sun, Jun 2, 2013 43 mins
Hurricane Sandy hits the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, causing devastation and bringing New York City to its knees. One man is swept out to sea in pitch dark as his beachfront cottage is torn apart by waves.
Episode 20
Regan/Gary & Scott
Sun, Jun 9, 2013 45 mins
A young girl and her best friend are abducted by serial killers. Two hunters crash their small plane in the remote Alaskan wilderness and are horrifically burned.
Episode 21
David/Sandy and Ken/Maura
Sun, Jun 16, 2013 43 mins
A teenage boy is abducted, sexually assaulted and tortured. A nanny is attacked by a 14-foot Nile crocodile in a remote African river. And a mother of two is abducted by a knife-wielding stranger who is covered in blood.
Episode 22
Singer/Romina and John
Sun, Jun 23, 2013 43 mins
Four young Americans, kidnapped in Kyrgyzstan, face a desperate situation: kill or be killed. And a young couple's dream holiday at a Thai beach resort turns into a terror-filled fight for survival as a tsunami strikes.
Episode 23
Dorothy/Jim/Bud and Katrina
Sun, Jun 30, 2013 43 mins
A woman is raped in front of her children before being shot in the head and left to die. A man picking berries alone is bitten by a deadly rattlesnake miles from help.
Episode 24
Bill, Mike and Ginger/Wanda
Sun, Jul 7, 2013 42 mins
A gunman shoots at a Florida school board. A woman is abducted after a evening with her husband by three serial rapists.
Episode 25
Rhonda/Jason/Patrick
Sun, Jul 14, 2013 43 mins
A young woman is abducted, sexually assaulted and stabbed and yet, incredibly, outwits her attacker. A man, who tries to save a neighboring family from a tornado, is sucked up 50 feet into the funnel cloud.
Episode 26
Shaunna & Brad/Lee/Emily
Sun, Jul 21, 2013 43 mins
A woman and her boyfriend are shot by her ex-partner and left to die in a burning house. A man pinned by his arm in his wrecked van faces amputation to escape. And a young mother whose neck is sawn open by an intruder plays dead in order to live.