Donner Pass: The Road to Survival (1978)

Genres - Drama  |   Sub-Genres - Docudrama  |   Release Date - Oct 24, 1978 (USA - Unknown)  |   Run Time - 98 min.  |   Countries - United States  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Iotis Erlewine

This made-for-TV movie relates the true story of the infamous Donner Party, the group of unlucky pioneers who were stranded in the Rockies by a snowstorm and had to eat the bodies of the dead to survive.

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survivor, cannibal, frontiersman, hardships, snowstorm, starvation, wilderness