Chilean Miners – 17 Days Buried Alive

“Angus Macqueen’s riveting film”  Telegraph
“atmospheric documentary”  Sunday Telegraph
“the week’s most powerful documentary” Daily Express

 

When 33 Chilean miners emerged from underground before a worldwide audience of over a billion, they made a pact not to speak about what happened underground. Now six of them remember the untold story of the first seventeen days – when no one outside knew if they were alive.

Filming down a Chilean mine with fellow miners, 17 Days Buried Alive explores the nightmare of living in dark tunnels half a mile underground, eating a spoonful of tuna every two days and not knowing if they would ever be found.

BBC/TVN CHILE/MSNBC (2011)

 

Director: Angus Macqueen
Editor: Brand Thumim
Camera: Guillermo Galdos
Chilean Producer: Miguel Soffia