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THIRTEEN LIVES

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On Saturday, June 23, 2018, 12 boys and their soccer coach entered the Tham Luang caves in Thailand’s Chiang Rai province. Through sheer misfortune, heavy rains quickly descended, filled the caves and trapped the team inside, necessitating a monumental rescue operation that would last 18 days and bring together local communities, the nation of Thailand, and hundreds of volunteers from around the world united in a single goal: the saving of these 13 lives.

is not a documentary and it cuts, edits, and paraphrases reality to effectively capture on screen the impossibly immense scale of

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