Lost: The Series

Ernest Shackleton left London in August 1914 on the ship Endurance for what he insisted was “the last great Polar journey that can be made”—a 1,600-mile trek across Antarctica on foot. A day’s sail from its destination, the Endurance was trapped in a vast sea of ice. Thus began a grueling 18-month ordeal—28 men trapped on the ice, 1,000 miles from the nearest outpost of civilization. Their battle with bitter winds, frigid seas, and an ever dwindling food supply has become one of the most enduring survival stories of all time.

In October 1942, a bomber carrying World War I ace Eddie Rickenbacker vanished somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. While Americans eagerly awaited news of their greatest living war hero, Rickenbacker and the crew drifted in three tiny rafts, beset by sharks, storms, and desperate thirst. Their ordeal became one of the most gripping wartime survival stories ever.

Barbara Lovell, daughter of Apollo 13’s commander, was sixteen when the oxygen tanks aboard her father’s spacecraft exploded on the way to the moon. The crew’s battle to return to Earth is one of the greatest survival stories of all-time. LOST in Outer Space weaves together the dramatic story of the astronauts with the story of a teenager, thrust into celebrity and stuck at home hoping her father will make it back alive.

In December 1971, 17-year-old Juliane Koepcke was flying home for Christmas when her plane broke apart in a storm over the Peruvian rainforest. She fell 3,500 feet, strapped to her seat, and survived. Peruvian army officials, Christian missionaries, and family members launched a massive search for the plane and its passengers. Ten days later, as the searchers were finally giving up hope, Juliane miraculously emerged from the forest, the sole survivor of the crash. Her story is at once startling, heartbreaking, and inspiring—a tale of one girl’s battle with, and abiding love for, the Amazon rainforest.