Movies and TvShows featuring "donner-party" theme.

A group of college-age friends head to a remote cabin for a vacation, but they soon find themselves trapped in a snowstorm. As they struggle to survive, they discover that they are being hunted by a cannibalistic ghost-child.

Margaret Reed, a wealthy and proud woman of Chicago unwillingly finds herself a member of the Donner party - a group of pioneers making their way to California by covered wagon in the summer of 1846. One by one the odds begin to stack against Margaret and her family as precious days slip away and an early winter storm closes the passes through the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Trapped without adequate food and supplies, Margaret struggles to keep her family alive.

In the winter of 1846-47, desperate pioneers who became trapped in the snowy mountains resort to cannibalism in order to survive.

A group of friends get stranded during a snowstorm in the Donner Pass. As they struggle to survive, they realize that there is a killer amongst them, and they must find a way to escape before they become the next victims.

African filmmaker Idrissa Ouedraogo (YAABA) discusses the influence that Charlie Chaplin has been on his work, along with archival footage of interviews with several of Chaplin's co-stars.