The survival genre of documentary has seen consistent releases for decades, primarily on television with heavy hitters like I Survived... and I Shouldn't Be Alive. A wealth of shows have a similar ...

For Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, climbing the Siula Grande, an intimidating peak in the nosebleed section of the Peruvian Andes, was surprisingly easy, not to mention spectacular and exhilarating. But ...

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CHELSEA — “There’s always a choice,” says mountain climber Joe Simpson. That statement becomes a constant refrain in “Touching the Void,” an imaginative and visceral retelling of one man’s near-death ...

It's hard for a filmmaker to bring off a documentary about an event for which no documentary footage exists. He has to rely solely on talking-head interviews, which invariably become monotonous, or on ...