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Survival Family (サバイバルファミリー)

Survival Family (サバイバルファミリー) is Shinobu Yaguchi's 2017 Japanese comedy about the Suzuki family fleeing a Tokyo where all electricity has stopped, cycling to Kagoshima. Released February 11, 2017 by Toho; 117 minutes; earned 800 million yen in Japan.

Survival film

Survival film: a genre placing protagonists in a harsh environment where they must survive against nature and sometimes other people; spans survival horror (Deliverance, Texas Chainsaw Massacre), lifeboat films, and 21st-century American survival cinema from Cast Away onward.

Survival game

The survival game is a video game genre where players keep characters alive by managing scarce resources, with breakout hits including Minecraft and the DayZ mod.

Survival horror

Survival horror: a video game genre of scarce resources and player vulnerability, coined by Resident Evil (1996) and templated by Alone in the Dark (1992), spanning Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Clock Tower, Fatal Frame, and Forbidden Siren.

Survival Island

Survival Island, also known as Three, is a 2005 survival thriller directed and written by Stewart Raffill, starring Billy Zane, Kelly Brook, and Juan Pablo Di Pace as shipwreck survivors in a deadly love triangle; it grossed $558,764 worldwide on a $9 million budget.

Survival Kids (2025 video game)

Survival Kids (サバイバルキッズ) is a 2025 co-op survival adventure game by Unity Games and Konami, a Switch 2 exclusive released June 5, 2025; reboot of the 1999 Game Boy Color game, up to 4-player online co-op, Metascore 62.

Survival of the Dead

Survival of the Dead is George A. Romero's 2009 zombie film, the sixth 'of the Dead' entry and a direct sequel to Diary of the Dead, set on Plum Island, Delaware, amid the O'Flynn-Muldoon family feud; released May 28, 2010, it grossed $101.1K and scored 29% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Survival of the fittest

Survival of the fittest, coined by Herbert Spencer in Principles of Biology (1864), is a synonym for Darwin's natural selection, adopted in the 1869 fifth edition of On the Origin of Species at Wallace's urging, not Darwin's own coinage.

Survival skills

Survival skills: first aid, CPR, trauma care, shelter, fire, water purification, foraging, navigation, signaling, and knots for staying alive in emergencies; hypothermia is the top killer of outdoor recreationists.

Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape

Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE; NATO: Extraction) is military training teaching isolated personnel to survive, evade capture, resist exploitation, and escape, delivered in Levels A, B, and C, standardized by NATO APRP-3.3.7.5 and US JPRA.

Survivalism

Survivalism, also called prepping, is the practice of preparing for societal collapse or catastrophe through stockpiling food, skills, and retreats. Coined by Kurt Saxon in 1975/6, it is strongest in the United States and spans far-right, secular, and left-wing variants.

Survive

Survive is a 2020 Quibi short-form drama series starring Sophie Turner and Corey Hawkins as plane-crash survivors in snowy mountains, based on Alex Morel's 2012 novel, later reissued as a 2023 film.

Survive Said The Prophet

Survive Said The Prophet, abbreviated SABAPURO (サバプロ), is a Japanese rock band formed in Tokyo in 2011 and fronted by vocalist Yosh, best known for anime theme songs like "MUKANJYO".

SURVIVE trial

SURVIVE (NCT05163080) is MimiVax and Roswell Park's phase 2b randomized placebo-controlled trial of the survivin vaccine SurVaxM plus temozolomide in newly diagnosed glioblastoma; median OS 22.8 vs 20.3 months (p=0.076), with significance only in patients 65 and under.

Survivin

Survivin (BIRC5), a 16.5 kDa inhibitor-of-apoptosis protein on chromosome 17q25, blocks apoptosis and forms the chromosomal passenger complex with Aurora-B, INCENP, and borealin; overexpressed in most cancers, it remains an unapproved drug target.

Surviving Black Hawk Down

Surviving Black Hawk Down is a 2025 three-part Netflix documentary series, directed by Jack MacInnes and produced by Ridley Scott Associates, recounting the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu through interviews with American soldiers and Somali survivors.

Surviving Christmas

Surviving Christmas is a 2004 DreamWorks holiday comedy directed by Mike Mitchell, starring Ben Affleck, James Gandolfini, Catherine O'Hara, and Christina Applegate, in which a lonely executive pays a family $250,000 to pose as his parents; it earned 8% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Surviving Death

Surviving Death is a 2021 six-part Netflix documentary series directed by Ricki Stern, based on Leslie Kean's 2017 book, covering near-death experiences, mediums, signs from the dead, and reincarnation, featuring UVA Division of Perceptual Studies researchers Bruce Greyson and Jim Tucker.

Surviving Earth

Surviving Earth is an eight-part NBC and Peacock docuseries created by Tim Haines of Walking with Dinosaurs, covering mass extinctions over 450 million years; distinct from Thea Gajić's 2025 drama film of the same name.

Surviving Ohio State

Surviving Ohio State is a 2025 HBO documentary directed by Eva Orner and produced by George Clooney about Richard Strauss, the Ohio State physician who abused at least 177 male students from 1978 to 1998, and the survivors' fight for accountability.

Surviving Paradise

Surviving Paradise: 2023 Netflix reality competition, not the 2022 Okavango Delta documentary A Family Tale. Twelve contestants camp in the woods, vote into a villa for $100,000; host Jessimae Peluso, Studio Lambert and Raw TV, aired October 20, 2023.

Surviving Picasso

Surviving Picasso is a 1996 Merchant Ivory biographical drama directed by James Ivory, starring Anthony Hopkins as Pablo Picasso and Natascha McElhone as Françoise Gilot, covering 1943–1953; the Picasso estate banned use of his real artworks.

Surviving R. Kelly

Surviving R. Kelly is a six-part 2019 Lifetime docuseries, executive produced by dream hampton, in which survivors detail R. Kelly's alleged abuse; it drew 2.1 million average viewers, spurred Kim Foxx's investigation, and preceded Kelly's 2021 and 2022 convictions.

Surviving Summer

Surviving Summer is a Netflix Australian teen surfing drama (2022-2023) starring Sky Katz as Brooklyn exile Summer Torres in Shorehaven, Victoria. Two seasons, 18 episodes, created by Josh Mapleston, Gemma Crofts, and Joanna Werner; canceled February 2025.

Surviving the Game

Surviving the Game (1994) is an Ernest R. Dickerson action thriller starring Ice-T as a homeless man hunted by wealthy clients, adapting Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game; New Line release grossing $7.7M.

Survivor

Survivor is a CBS American reality competition series premiered May 31, 2000 (also known as Survivor: Borneo), in which castaways vote each other out for a million-dollar prize; it averaged 28.25 million viewers in season one and reached 50 seasons by 2026.

Survivor (American TV series)

Survivor is the American CBS reality competition series (premiered 2000; format by Charlie Parsons, US producer Mark Burnett, host Jeff Probst) in which castaways compete and vote each other out for a $1 million Sole Survivor prize, now in its 51st season.

Survivor (band)

Survivor, the American rock band formed in Chicago in 1978 by Jim Peterik and Frankie Sullivan, is known for the AOR hits "Eye of the Tiger" (Rocky III, 1982, six weeks at number one, Grammy winner) and "Burning Heart" (Rocky IV), with singers Dave Bickler and Jimi Jamison.

Survivor (Destiny's Child album)

Survivor is Destiny's Child's third studio album (Columbia, May 1, 2001), the first by the trio of Beyoncé, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams; it debuted at No. 1, went four-times platinum, and won a 2002 Grammy for its title track.

Survivor (film)

Survivor is a 2015 American action thriller directed by James McTeigue, in which Milla Jovovich plays a Foreign Service officer in London framed for a bombing and hunted by assassin Pierce Brosnan.