A convenience store worker plays dead to escape her abductor. An endurance athlete faces her greatest challenge ever after falling 60 feet in a remote canyon. A couple put their lives on the line to protect their children in a home invasion.

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After five highjackers take control of an EgyptAir flight and begin executing passengers, a woman silently says goodbye to her loved ones when the hijackers pick her to be the next one to die. A surfer loses half of the blood in his body when a great white shark clamps its jaws around his entire torso and shakes him like a rag doll. A young mother is repeatedly assaulted and strangled in front of her 3-year-old son.

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A young mother and her cousin are shot by a deranged gunman. A couple hiking in a national park must fight for their lives when they're attacked by a ferocious mountain lion. A quick stop at a gas station
threatens the life of a woman when she's taken hostage by a violent criminal on the run from the police.

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A heart-wrenching drama unfolds when a man struggles to save himself and his family from drowning in frigid waters, and a female prison officer uses her strength and quick thinking skills to stay alive during the
longest prison siege in U.S. history.

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Two students and a professor at Virginia Tech University manage to survive the April 16, 2007, massacre at the school. A Minneapolis school bus with 52 children plummets 45 feet when a bridge collapses in August 2007.

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**For this History This Week special feature, Sally interviews director Robert Eggers about his new historically inspired film, Nosferatu.**

Winter, 1476. Vlad III is a prince in Wallachia, in present-day Romania. He is a violent man, so violent that he earns the nickname "Vlad the Impaler." He also has another name that he inherited from his father: Dracula.

Dracula is constantly fighting for his crown, but today, that fight will come to an end. His headless body will be discovered in a marsh, stuck down by his enemies. But his legend will live on.

Dracula pops up in stories throughout Europe over the next few centuries, until author Bram Stoker decides to combine this legend with the latest fictional craze, vampires. His book, Dracula, becomes the king of the genre. It inspires numerous adaptations, including a silent film called Nosferatu. It's considered one of the most important horror movies in history.

Over 100 years later, director Robert Eggers has reimagined the original Nosferatu and adapted it for a modern audience. In a conversation with Eggers, we asked, how did he make a blood-sucking monster feel like a historical figure? And where do vampires fit into our lives today?

Special thanks to Robert Eggers, director of Nosferatu. We also used a great book to help research this episode, Dracula: Prince of Many Faces, by Radu Florescu and Raymond McNally.

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Cari is home alone with her youngest son when she is attacked by a strange man. Kevin is cleaning out an old civil war cemetery when he gets a four inch hook lodged in his neck. Joe and Katherine are working in a music store in a suburban mall when a young man takes them hostage after shooting several other patrons.

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