Ada Blackjack: Stranded in the Arctic | The Female Robinson Crusoe | 3
Lorne Knight has died, and Ada Blackjack finds herself completely alone on Wrangel Island. She’s losing hope she’ll ever see her son Bennett again. But she’s determined to do whatever it takes to surv...
8 Mar 202244min
Ada Blackjack: Stranded in the Arctic | Marooned | 2
After one year on Wrangel Island, the five members of the expedition are alarmed to realize that the supply ship that was scheduled to relieve them won’t be coming. Winter has arrived early, the ocean...
1 Mar 202244min
Ada Blackjack: Stranded in the Arctic | A Desolate Land | 1
In 1921, an expedition set out from Alaska for a remote island high in the Arctic Circle. With them was a 23-year-old Inuit woman named Ada Blackjack, who had been hired by four white explorers to coo...
22 Feb 202244min
USS Indianapolis: Disaster at Sea | Rediscovering Indy with Filmmaker Sara Vladic | 5
Sara Vladic was 13 when she first heard about USS Indianapolis while watching a World War II documentary with her dad. In just one sentence, the film described how the ship delivered the bomb that end...
15 Feb 202240min
USS Indianapolis: Disaster at Sea | Rescued | 4
By sheer chance, an American bomber pilot on a routine test flight has spotted the survivors of U.S.S. Indianapolis, who have been floating in the middle of the Philippine Sea for over three days. But...
8 Feb 202243min
USS Indianapolis: Disaster at Sea | Holding On | 3
It’s been two days since U.S.S. Indianapolis sank, and the number of survivors is dwindling. They’re being picked off by sharks, and driven insane by sleep deprivation, dehydration, and saltwater pois...
1 Feb 202242min
USS Indianapolis: Disaster at Sea | Troubled Waters | 2
The nine hundred men who survived the torpedo attack on the U.S.S. Indianapolis are either drifting in the sea, fighting strong currents and swells, or clinging to rafts. They’re at the mercy of the o...
25 Jan 202243min
USS Indianapolis: Disaster at Sea | Abandon Ship | 1
In the final weeks of World War II, the Navy cruiser U.S.S. Indianapolis was attacked and sunk by a Japanese submarine in the middle of the Philippine Sea. The nine hundred survivors found themselves ...
18 Jan 202242min
