One movie I'd like to see is Werner Herzog's 1999 documentary "Wings of Hope", about 17-year old Juliana Koepcke who was the only survivor of a plane crash in the Peruvian Amazon.

From the review at Wings of Hope (Werner Herzog, 1999)

"[Herzog] was in the Lima, Peru, airport on Christmas eve, 1971, trying to get to the Aguirre [film] set out in the jungle. A full plane took off without him, and 92 passengers and crew disappeared off the map in a fatal crash. One passenger survived, a 17-year-old German girl named Juliane Koepke. For Wings of Hope, Herzog decided to relive his trauma of that fateful 1971 night by locating Koepke, having her tell her extraordinary story, and asking her to recreate her trek back to civilization, seventeen years after..... Koepke had been raised by her German emigre parents on an ecological site in the jungle. She had grown up with survival training. ... Therefore, she realized that she had to locate flowing water and follow it downstream, until the water turned into a navigable river, where natives might find her..." (from the film review at http://www.geraldpeary.com/reviews/wxyz/wings-of-hope.html )