Thriller posapocalíptico en el que una mujer y sus dos hijos, estos con los ojos vendados, navegan río abajo tras una sangrienta invasión alienígena de la Tierra intentando evitar a las criaturas extraterrestres. Cuando algo misterioso diezma la población mundial, solo se sabe una cosa: si lo ves, te suicidas. Malorie (Sandra Bullock) deberá huir junto a sus dos hijos por un caudaloso y traicionero río, rumbo al único sitio que parece ofrecer refugio. Pero para sobrevivir, deberán completar el peligroso viaje de dos días con los ojos vendados.
Bob McGraw is in his 12th year of college, goofing his way through life. Bob, Irwing, Gonzer and Max are the four losers forced and bribed to represent their university in an intercollegiate raft race. Forced and bribed into this role, they make some friends, the lovely Heather Merriweather, but mostly enemies, among others a whole team of marines, and preppy IVY-leaguers determined to win.
When the experienced guide Vic accompanies the city boy Alan and his three friends on their first wilderness experience, he not only hopes to teach the four boys lessons about the wilderness, but about themselves. Vic pushes them to the limit. Soon after alienating the boys, Vic finds himself in desperate need of help and must rely on his students in order to survive.
Brian Fitzgerald "Fitzcarraldo", un excéntrico y megalómano hombre de negocios obsesionado con la ópera, ha ido perdiendo su prestigio y su fortuna en absurdas empresas sin futuro. Su último proyecto consiste en construir un teatro de ópera en un poblado peruano a orillas del Amazonas; para conseguir el capital necesario para financiar tan magna empresa se dedica al comercio del caucho. Su extravagante plan exige sacar del río un gran barco fluvial y transportarlo hasta la cima de un monte.
An ad-agency boss (Alan Alda) leads a white-water-rafting trip into danger.
When the rivers freeze, world class freestyle kayakers find their way to a special spot on the Chattahoochee River. Squatting in an abandoned parking lot, they spend the winter training for the next world championships on North America’s best winter whitewater.
A whitewater rafting party is terrorized by a group of loggers who, after accidentally killing one of the rafters in a drunken session of target practice, decide to eliminate the rest of the witnesses.
A group of teenagers who have been selected to participate in a recreational white water rafting trip. All of the kids selected have AIDS or have been infected with the HIV virus. At some point during the trip, all the kids tell their stories and share their feelings about what their lives have been like since being infected with the virus and how they struggle to live normal lives with a hope of a cure in the future.
This Warner Bros. The Sports Parade series short chronicles the attempt by a group of men to navigate the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon to Lake Mead. Led by Norman D. Nevills, nine men undertake a nineteen days trip in three specially built rowboats through the more than 200 rapids, some which run at 30 mph. Along the way, they see the remnants of previous expeditions. They also visit abandoned Pueblo Indian cave dwellings.