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3) Pitch black
Series
Riddick volume 1
Description
When a group of marooned passengers must face a pack of terrifying creatures whose only weakness is the light, they turn to a vicious convict with an appetite for destruction and eerie eyes that can guide them through the darkness.
Series
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
When destiny calls, the Oceanic 6 frantically race back to the island. As a result of Ben moving the island, the survivors left on the island begin skipping through time. The survivors discover that they've run into The Others 50 years in the past, but Richard Alpert is the same age. In Los Angeles, Kate tries to find out who is trying to take Aaron away from her. In order to avoid being killed, Ben promises to offer proof to Sun that Jin is still...
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Throughout history, the most harrowing stories of human survival, like that of the Donner Party in the 1840s, have involved people whose only means of staying alive was to cannibalize the deceased around them. On Friday the 13th of October, 1972, just such a story began when a charter plane carrying 45 rugby team members crashed in the remote Andes Mountains. For 72 days, the world thought they were dead. But what 16 survivors endured was far worse...
8) Passengers
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Survivors of a plane crash begin disappearing and their grief counselor suspects reality may not be what it seems.
9) Enemy Mine
Pub. Date
1985
Description
Two space enemies who crash on a desolate planet and gradually realize that in order to survive they must overcome their hatred of each other.
10) The edge
Description
A model has her rich, much older husband come with her to a photo shoot. But when their plane chrashes in the middle of nowhere, a strong mind game erupts between the jealous husband and the younger photographer as they try to get back to civilization.
11) Pitch Black
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Description
A group of stranded space travelers fight for survival on a seemingly empty, dry, and barren planet.
12) The Aviator
Pub. Date
2002, 1985
Description
Edgar Anscombe, an airmail pilot and former World War I fighter pilot, reluctantly takes Tillie Hansen as a passenger in his biplane on a cross-country journey. When the plane crashes and the two must rely on each other to survive, they begin to fall in love.
Pub. Date
2000, c1997
Description
Two teenagers are put to the test when the plane taking them to a wilderness boot camp for juvenile offenders crashes into the vast Sierra wilderness. Their pilot, injured and unable to make the dangerous journey, teaches them the ways of his ancient people and to have faith in the spirit of the white wolf as well as themselves. Pamela and Jack are forced to face the dangerous trek alone with only the clothes on their back and the spirit of the white...
17) Cast away
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Chuck, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph. D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia ditches at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and he washes up on a tiny island with nothing but some flotsam and jetsam from the aircraft's cargo. Can he survive in this tropical wasteland? Will he ever return to woman he loves?
18) Time of the wolf
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
"When young Aaron MacGregor is tragically orphaned he is sent to live with his distant aunt and uncle in the nearby woodlands. While struggling to adept to his new surroundings, Aaron suffers under a strained relationship with his emotional aunt and trouble from a local school bully."--Container.
19) Twelfth night
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Shipwrecked on an unfriendly Illyrian shore, Viola, believing her twin brother is dead, disguises herself in male attire and joins the retinue of the lovesick Duke Orsino.
20) Titanic
Formats
Description
Deep-sea explorer Brock Lovett has reached the most famous shipwreck of all, the passenger liner Titanic. Emerging with a safe believed to contain a diamond called "The Heart of the Ocean," he finds that the safe does not hold the diamond but a drawing of a beautiful woman wearing it. When Brock is interviewed on TV, he shows the drawing to the cameras. A 100-year-old woman named Rose Calvert recognizes the woman in the drawing as herself! On a visit...