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Why the Thai cave rescue got a movie — but other crises with kids get ignored

Updated August 08, 2022

A poster for the film <em>Thirteen Lives</em>, now streaming on Prime Video, which re-creates the rescue of a soccer team of 12 boys and their coach who were trapped in a flooded underwater cave in Thailand in 2018. (Amazon Studios/ Screenshot by NPR) — A poster for the film Thirteen Lives, now streaming on Prime Video, which re-creates the rescue of a soccer team of 12 boys and their coach who were trapped in a flooded underwater cave in Thailand in 2018. (Amazon Studios/ Screenshot by NPR)

This article was originally published on July 10, 2018.

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