Thailand The Rescue sits in the top 10% of Thailand films on this catalog — ranked #25 of 239 by TMDB audience score.
Synopsis
“Courage runs deep”
The enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #25 of 239 Thailand films indexed here (90th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +1.6 points above the Thailand average of 6.3/10.
Among Thailand Documentary productions specifically: #2 of 6 (top 33%).
Audience Engagement
177 audience reviews — more than 92% of Thailand films in our index.
Review volume (92th percentile) outruns trending popularity (72th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
The 2020–2022 Thailand Window
The Rescue holds position #19 of 46 Thailand films in the 2020–2022 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2020s Thailand Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2020s in Thailand, 56 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when The Rescue premiered alongside 12 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 12 other Thailand films in 2021.
The 205th Thailand title from Thailand we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1974).
Our Thailand catalog contains 239 titles in total (190 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on The Rescue, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- flooding · 3
- monsoon · 2
- miracle · 2
- cave diving · 1
- disaster · 23
- rescue · 13
- thai · 11
- natural disaster · 10
- cave · 8
- thailand · 56
Production Details
| Primary Country | Thailand |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Thailand, United Kingdom, United States of America |
| Original Language | En |
| Spoken Languages | German, English, Thai |
| Production Companies | Cavalry Media, Little Monster Films, National Geographic, Ventureland, Storyteller Productions |
| Runtime | 1h 47m |
| Release Date | October 8, 2021 |
| IMDb | tt9098872 |
| Official Site | films.nationalgeographic.com |