Fifteen boys stranded on an island with nothing but their wits and whatever they can scavenge. The real tension isn't the island, it's whether kids that young can actually organize themselves into something that survives. Verne wrote this specifically for children, which means he understood that the story isn't about rescue, it's about the moment they stop waiting to be saved and start building a world instead.

What should have been a two-week summer vacation turns into a long battle to stay alive. Fifteen boys aboard a drifting sailboat are caught in a storm and washed up on a deserted island, where their ordeal begins. Days filled with danger, excitement and fear push them to the edge at times, yet the hardship also shapes them into strong, self-reliant young people. Adapted from Jules Verne's novel Deux Ans de Vacances, the only book he wrote specifically for children, this 1987 adventure special brings the castaways' island trials to the screen.