I Am Alive: Surviving the Andes Plane Crash is a 2010 television documentary recounting the tragedy of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 from the perspective of survivor Nando Parrado. It is a 2-hour special with reenactments of the October 13, 1972 crash and the 72-day struggle for survival that followed, including details of the 60-kilometre (37 mi) trek out of the mountains by Parrado and fellow survivor Roberto Canessa. I Am Alive was produced by AMS Pictures and premiered on the History Channel on October 20, 2010. It was released for DVD on February 22, 2011.^[1]

Survivor interviews

• Nando Parrado
• Roberto Canessa
• Carlitos Paez
• Eduardo Strauch
• Gustavo Zerbino

Cast

• James Lentzsch as Nando Parrado
• Benjamin Josse as Roberto Canessa
• Kelly Haitz as Susy Parrado
• Cindy Latch as Zenia Parrado
• Vince Roberts as Carlitos Paez
• Dorian Roberts as Eduardo Strauch
• Everette Scott Ortiz as Gustavo Zerbino
• Ben Keyworth as Marcelo Perez
• Heather Child as Liliana Methol
• Mark T. Lee as Javier Methol
• Alfred Ramirez as Panchito Abal
• Taylor Witt as Antonio Vizintin
• Larry Rodriguez as Col. Julio Fernandez
• Tim Wylie as Lt. Col. Dante Lagurara
• Grayson Howe as Numa Turcatti
• Daniel Cruz as Bobby Francois
• Lico Reyes as Sergio Catalan

Reception

Critic Linda Stasi of the New York Post awarded I Am Alive four stars, calling it "without question the finest survival documentary I have ever seen on TV."^[2]