The Rescue (2021) on Netflix
NR20211h 47mDocumentaryDrama
In 2018, monsoon floods fill the Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand. Twelve boys and their football coach are trapped inside. Cave divers take on the attempt to reach them.
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- Netflix3.5/5
- IMDb8.3/1023,982 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes96%
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Plot summary
A junior association football team, twelve boys and their coach, was trapped deep inside a flooded cave in northern Thailand in 2018. Monsoon rains had flooded the Tham Luang cave. Cave divers, specialists in a high-risk activity, worked to reach the team through submerged passages. An international community gathered around the cave to help. The documentary follows that mission, drawing on previously unseen material and interviews with the divers.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Rescue (2021)
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- The filmmakers had difficulty securing rights to the story: National Geographic secured the rights to the divers' story, while Netflix had acquired the rights to the experiences of the soccer team, preventing the film from telling their story.
- In March 2019 it was announced that Kevin Macdonald would direct a documentary about the Tham Luang cave rescue, but in February 2021 Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin were announced as replacing him as director, with Macdonald remaining as executive producer.
- The film was screened at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2021, where it won the People's Choice Award for Documentaries.
