I Survived...
What would you do if you were confronted with death? What gives someone the strength to survive? Is it luck, chance, instinct? In a stripped-down, simple-yet-cinematic interview style, “I Survived…” allows survivors to explain, in their own words, how they overcame unbelievable circumstances — offering insight into what got them through the experience that changed their lives forever.
Genre: Documentary
Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
Type: tv
Season: 1
Episode: 1
Duration: 30m
Release: 2008
Rating: 8.3
Season 1 - I Survived...
Season 2 - I Survived...
01 Dec 2008
"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 ..."
15 Dec 2008
"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 ..."
05 Jan 2009
"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..."
19 Jan 2009
"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 ..."
09 Feb 2009
"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 ..."
26 Jul 2009
"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 ..."
16 Aug 2009
"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."
Season 3 - I Survived...
06 Dec 2009
"A young runaway has her arms cut off in a horrific assault. A pregnant woman and her father flee a deadly firestorm. A woman survives multiple stab wounds in a drug fuelled attack by her enraged boyfriend."
20 Dec 2009
"Astounding survival tactics are portrayed when 15-year-old Maggie is abducted during her early morning run. She is taken into a forest ravine, repeatedly assaulted and shot several times. ..."
03 Jan 2010
"A heavily pregnant woman is brutally attacked by her neighbor. A young girl endures years of abuse by a family friend before being abducted and held captive for 104 days."
10 Jan 2010
"A couple fight for their lives in a terrifying home invasion. A lineman is electrocuted while working alone up a 35 foot power pole."
24 Jan 2010
"A single mom is attacked by an old classmate after spurning his affections. A gold prospector survives five days in the Australian Outback. And a woman is left for dead after being carjacked then shot several times at close range."
21 Feb 2010
"A 16-year-old girl is abducted and assaulted by two gunmen. A deer hunter must drag himself up a dry creek bed for help after falling from a tree and breaking both his legs. A college ..."
Season 4 - I Survived...
15 May 2011
"A young nurse is abducted and tortured by a serial killer who has already murdered four other women; a mother and her four year old daughter are trapped in the attic of their house by a flash flood."
Season 5 - I Survived...
16 Dec 2012
"Two hours after detonating a massive car bomb in Norway's capital, Oslo, the bomber, now disguised as a policeman, makes his way to Utoya Island where 530 teenagers are attending a summer ..."
30 Dec 2012
"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."
03 Mar 2013
"A disgruntled contractor executes the city officials he believes wronged him, but one, the City Attorney, fights back."
10 Mar 2013
"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 ..."
17 Mar 2013
"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."
24 Mar 2013
"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."
31 Mar 2013
"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."
07 Apr 2013
"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."
14 Apr 2013
"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 ..."
14 Jul 2013
"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."
21 Jul 2013
"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..."
Season 6 - I Survived...
2015-01-26
"A young woman is abducted by 4 armed men and sexually assaulted for 15 hours; two teenage sisters are attacked and raped while their uncle is shot by a masked gunman."
2015-01-26
"A Bethlehem, New York woman is attacked in bed with a fireman's axe by an unknown man after he murders her husband; A cook is left to die in a burning room after she is shot twelve times at close range by an unknown assailant in Las Cruces, New Mexico."
2015-01-26
"A Gilmer, Texas, woman is abducted from the prison where she works by a convicted murderer, and held captive at gunpoint for 26 hours on the run with him, sparking the largest search in Texas history; a heavily pregnant woman is stabbed 27 times at a gas station in West Swanzey, New Hampshire, by a man who accuses her of beating up his sister."
2015-01-26
"A man is held hostage on a shuttle bus with several others by a man with a gun for over 8 hours in Atlantic City, New Jersey; a Bullhead City, Arizona, woman is sexually assaulted and shot after a botched home invasion leaves her friends and her husband dead."
2015-01-26
"A 15-year-old boy from Bothell, Washington, is shot through the jaw and plays dead for three hours during a horrific school shooting; and an elderly woman, whose daughter deals drugs, winds up stabbed four times in her yard in Barnardsville, North Carolina, in a case of apparent mistaken identity."
