The Rescue (2021)

December through March is my documentary binge season. I watch one or two each year outside of this time period, but I really lean heavily on the Oscar shortlist, and try to watch as many of the movies that I can find. This is a National Geographic documentary about the rescue of the boys soccer team that was trapped in a cave in Thailand by rising water with their coach. The situation was very tricky because the caves are so long that there were very few people on the planet who had the expertise requried to pull of a rescue, and they were all middle aged hobby divers, who outstrip navy Seals when it comes to this sort of work. The story is an incredible one, whereby they use extreme means to extricate everyone, and in a nick of time. It really is an amazing story.