RE “Alive”:
I read that book when it first came out. Amazing story of survival in one the single MOST inhospitable places on the planet - the Andes Cordillera. Bad place to crash.
Here’s a movie you should check out:
“This Land Is Mine” (1943)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036431/
Doesn’t get a lot of airplay, but when it’s on make it a point to see it. Complete with “Officer Friendly” - “Hey, we’re just doing our JOB, friend... go along to get along” helping the National Socialists round up “suspected terrorists and enemies of the people”... iow, normal folk who disagree with being occupied.
In Alive 1993 they are forced to eat flesh of those already dead to survivor, fortunately (and unfortunately) they are in the snowy cold so it provides nature refrigeration for the dead bodies. And so they have plenty of water from snow and those give them time.
That movie is much more positive than Abandon Ship 1957 where if they were to be ethical and humane they probably all would die. In that one people are selected for their un-fitness to row to be shoved off to die in the water, naturally the one officer making the pick spares his own wife.
That is a bad situation.