Netflix is no stranger to telling true stories (Maestro, Nyad, and Rustin are just three recent biopics released by the streamer), but Society of the Snow brings a new scale and scope to the genre.
The movie depicts the events of the 1972 Andes flight disaster, when a plane carrying 45 passengers from Montevideo, Uruguay, to Santiago, Chile, crashed in the South American mountain range. The survivors spent 72 days stranded in the mountains, braving avalanches, exposure, freezing temperatures, and high altitudes, eventually resorting to cannibalism to stay alive.
