Endurance

2015 · 12 Seasons · History · Reality / Survival

Alone is the survival competition with no camera crew, no challenges, and no theatrical eliminations, just ten experts dropped into separate patches of hostile wilderness, self-filming their attempt to outlast everyone else for a half-million-dollar prize. The format's purity is the entire product, hunger, silence, and psychology documented by the only people present, and the show's real drama was never bears or storms but the moment a contestant's reasons for staying run out. Reality TV's most honest show by wide agreement, docked only for the middle-episode lulls and the anticlimax when medical checks end a run the contestant was winning.

2010 · Danny Boyle · 94 min · Drama / Adventure

127 Hours traps its audience in a Utah slot canyon with James Franco's arm pinned under a boulder, and dares you to stay for what everyone knows is coming. Danny Boyle attacks a one-location survival story with split screens, dream sequences, and restless energy, turning five motionless days into kinetic cinema, and Franco delivers the performance of his career as canyoneer Aron Ralston. The famous scene is exactly as hard to watch as its reputation promises, and the film around it is unexpectedly joyful, a story about self-reliance curdling into its opposite. Boyle's hyperactivity divides viewers. The catharsis doesn't.

2019 · Racing Simulation · PC / Steam

Assetto Corsa Competizione trades its predecessor's modding freedom for laser-focused GT3 and GT4 racing, delivering the most authentic and competitive organized racing experience on PC with a physics engine and multiplayer infrastructure built for serious competitors.