Episode 1: Back From The Dead

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A snowmobile accident victim lives after his heart stops in an icy lake. A car crash victim survives after her life support is terminated. A patient recalls a surgical procedure in detail after surgeons have induced her clinical death. Learn how they defied medical convention to come back from the dead. A forensic inquest explores these death-defying stories - only science can unlock the mystery.

Episode 2: Bolt From The Blue

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Incredible stories from the survivors of lightning strikes including a golfer whose heart stops on the links, and a tobogganer who finds a chain embedded in their neck during a freak winter storm.

Episode 3: Buried Alive

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A cross country skier is caught in an avalanche and buried six feet under the snow. A construction worker is buried for 16 hours under five feet of dirt by a trench cave in. A diver is trapped in a small air pocket more than one thousand feet inside an underwater cave. They all survived. Explore the science behind these unbelievable events that seem to be against all odds.

Episode 4: Crash

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Incredible stories with extraordinary odds of survival, from the racing driver who loses both legs in a 200-mile-an-hour crash to the 13-year-old boy internally decapitated when hit by a car.

Episode 5: Falling From The Sky

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Incredible stories of survival, from the skydiver whose parachute fails to open before she falls into a parking lot at 30mph to the flight attendant who plunges 30,000 feet from an exploded jetliner.

Episode 6: Superhuman Strength

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Incredible stories of survival, from the climber who is crushed when a half-ton boulder lands on top of him to the firefighter pinned under flaming debris and the man trapped under his 1.5 ton car.

Episodes

Episode 1: Back From The Dead

Episode 2: Bolt From The Blue

Episode 3: Buried Alive

Episode 4: Crash

Episode 5: Falling From The Sky

Episode 6: Superhuman Strength

Against All Odds

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Episode 1: Back From The Dead

Episode 2: Bolt From The Blue

Episode 3: Buried Alive

Episode 4: Crash

Episode 5: Falling From The Sky

Episode 6: Superhuman Strength

Episodes

E1 Episode 1: Back From The Dead

E2 Episode 2: Bolt From The Blue

E3 Episode 3: Buried Alive

E4 Episode 4: Crash

E5 Episode 5: Falling From The Sky

E6 Episode 6: Superhuman Strength

Overview

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More like this

Episodes

E1 Episode 1: Back From The Dead

E2 Episode 2: Bolt From The Blue

E3 Episode 3: Buried Alive

E4 Episode 4: Crash

E5 Episode 5: Falling From The Sky

E6 Episode 6: Superhuman Strength

Episode 1: Back From The Dead

Episode 2: Bolt From The Blue

Episode 3: Buried Alive

Episode 4: Crash

Episode 5: Falling From The Sky

Episode 6: Superhuman Strength

Episode 1: Back From The Dead

Episode 2: Bolt From The Blue

Episode 3: Buried Alive

Episode 4: Crash

Episode 5: Falling From The Sky

Episode 6: Superhuman Strength