This voyeuristic documentary details the difficult lives of four lone survivors of commercial airline crashes, portraying their struggles with punishing survivors’ guilt and post-traumatic stress. The circumstances are harrowing enough, but director Ky Dickens seems determined to milk her subjects’ stories for all they’re worth, which cheapens the material, reducing it to little more than tabloid sensationalism. Disaster groupies may eat this up, but everyone else will just feel uncomfortable.
Sole Survivor
1 hour 31 min • 2013