National Geographic Unveils Trailer For Chilean Mine Rescue: Race Against Time, The Inside Story Of 33 Men Trapped Half A Mile Underground For 69 Days
From Emmy®-Winning Blast Films, the Next Instalment in National Geographic’s Emmy-Winning ‘Race Against Time’ Franchise Features Never-Before-Seen Underground Footage Shot by the Miners Themselves, Alongside Six of the Miners’ First International Documentary Appearances
CHILEAN MINE RESCUE: RACE AGAINST TIME Premieres on 28 September on National Geographic
Today, National Geographic released the official trailer for CHILEAN MINE RESCUE: RACE AGAINST TIME, a comprehensive account of the 2010 disaster that trapped 33 miners nearly half a mile beneath Chile’s Atacama Desert. With the world holding its breath, what followed was a Chilean-led rescue that drew expertise from around the world. More than one billion people watched the historic rescue unfold, underscoring the extraordinary global attention the miners’ ordeal commanded. The series, from the Emmy Award-winning team at Blast Films, will premiere with all three episodes airing back-to-back, on Monday 28 September at 20:30 (CAT) on National Geographic (DStv 181, StarTimes 220) across Africa. The series will also be available on Disney+ in South Africa.
CHILEAN MINE RESCUE: RACE AGAINST TIME tells the story of endurance, ingenuity and improbable unity behind one of history’s most challenging rescues ever attempted. It features never-before-seen cell phone footage filmed in the mine and includes powerful interviews with survivors, families and rescuers – some speaking publicly outside of local Chilean press for the first time – to tell the definitive story of the 69 days rescuers raced to save the trapped miners while the men underground fought to survive. Among those featured is Jeff Kofman, then ABC’s International Correspondent and the first international journalist on the scene, who reported from Chile as the rescue unfolded.
The series follows the miners from the moment of the collapse through the improvised order that took hold in the days underground to the engineering gamble that made the rescue possible and the fame and lasting toll that followed.
On 5 August 2010, a catastrophic collapse at the San José copper-gold mine in Chile sealed 33 miners underground. For 17 days, they were presumed dead. For 52 more days, they waited while Chilean engineers and rescue teams, joined by drillers and specialists from around the world, attempted something that had never been done, as families above ground refused to leave. When the rescue capsule first surfaced, an estimated one billion people were watching – one of the largest live audiences in television history and a rare moment of shared hope across the world.
CHILEAN MINE RESCUE: RACE AGAINST TIME is the next instalment in National Geographic’s Emmy®-winning “Race Against Time” franchise. Previous series include the winner of the Critics Choice Documentary Award for Best Historical Documentary, “Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time”, and the winner of the Emmy for Outstanding Historical Documentary “Tsunami: Race Against Time.”
The series is produced by Blast Films for National Geographic. For Blast Films, Tanya Winston, Shona Thompson and Danny Horan executive produce. Luke Sewell is the series editor. Chloe Campbell and James Parris direct the series. For National Geographic, Tom McDonald is executive vice president of Content, Bengt Anderson is senior vice president of Unscripted Production and Development, and Carolyn Payne serves as executive producer.
