Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language are too limited. "The 30-Minute Shakespeare" is a new series of abridgements that tell the "story" of each play from start to finish while keeping the beauty of Shakespeare's language intact. Specific stage directions...

When passengers on a train are attacked by a creature, they must band together in order to survive until morning.

On November 20, 1820, in the Southeast Pacific, an enormous 85-foot sperm whale rammed and sank Nantucket whale ship The Essex and set its crew adrift more than a thousand miles from land. Only eight members of the young crew survived starvation, thirst and exposure, rescued at last by British whale ships three months later.

Sailing from New Zealand to Tonga, a boat carrying four men overturns and they drift for 119 days.

Two ordinary people, Jane and Paul, are the only survivors of a plane crash that isolates them on a remote snow-covered mountain. Soon this unlikely duo will have to find a way to get back to society, all while Jane struggles with her demons and Paul does everything he can to keep her safe.

Major cities are under attack. A group flees to the countryside. As they try to figure out how to survive, strange lights and unusual activity in the surrounding forest lead them to believe they are not alone.

A couple's romantic camping trip becomes a desperate fight for survival in this ultra-raw, unhinged kill ride.

Chinook the Alaskan Malamute must lead a shipwrecked blind man out of the wilderness, while the man's children launch a rescue mission of their own.

Sienna, desperate for money, agrees to take part in a mysterious underground game show. Upon arrival, she discovers the seemingly simple rule. Survive the night. But from what? Before long, she and the other contestants are running for their lives from the prehistoric creatures roaming the grounds, all for the entertainment of the rich and powerful.

Portrays one of the 5 survivors of the the Iwo Jima flag-raisers.