After experiencing the chilling narrative of Society of Snow, delve into the emotional resilience of survival with films like The Impossible, 127 Hours, Touching the Void, and Grave of the Fireflies.
The chilling true story of the 1972 Uruguayan Andes flight disaster, marred by cannibalism and harrowing survival, inspires Netflix s Society of the Snow and global fascination.
Society of the Snow (now on Netflix) revisits what many of us previously saw in 1993’s Alive, the harrowing based-on-a-true-story (BOATS) saga about members of a Uruguayan rugby squad who survived a plane crash in the Andes, and staved off starvation for more than two months in a freezing-cold environment by cannibalizing dead passengers. The new Spanish-language film, directed and co-written by J.A. Bayona (The Orphanage, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom), takes a slightly different approach, using as its basis the 2009 book Society of the Snow, by Uruguayan writer Pablo Vierci, a childhood friend of many of the survivors.