Alive: 20 Years Later

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Alive: 20 Years Later
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Directed byJill Fullerton-Smith
Produced byJill Fullerton-Smith
Narrated by Martin Sheen
Distributed by Touchstone Home Video
Release date
  • January 30, 1993 (January 30, 1993)
Running time
51 minutes
LanguagesEnglish
Spanish

Alive: 20 Years Later is a 1993 documentary film produced, directed and written by Jill Fullerton-Smith and narrated by Martin Sheen.

Contents

Content

The documentary focused on the lives (20 years later) of the 16 survivors, all of whom were Uruguayan, of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed in the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972. It also discussed their participation in the production of the 1993 feature film Alive.

Format

The documentary first aired on CBS on January 30, 1993. [1] It was released as a companion to Alive: The Miracle of the Andes. It is also included as an extra on the DVD of the 30th Anniversary Edition of Alive: The Miracle of the Andes.

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References

  1. "THE TV COLUMN". Washington Post. February 3, 1993.