That scene — 22½ harrowing minutes, 17½ of them in a single take — appears in "Hunger," Steve McQueen's 2008 movie about how people can turn their bodies into tools of protest and, more profoundly, about the philosophy and morality of fasting.
During over 20 harrowing minutes, according to NBC's report, Sikes "did everything he could to try to slow down that Prius".
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Due for UK release on 10 January, 12 Years A Slave is adapted from Northup's memoir describing life working on Louisiana plantations for 12 harrowing years.
He spent 12 harrowing days photographing the installation of the nearly 400-foot-tall antenna of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York.
About 20 harrowing seconds later, the shark finally wriggles free, breaching as it finds its way back to open water in the Pacific Ocean.
After 15 harrowing minutes, the plane had dropped about 20,000 feet, enough for the plane to fly under the ash cloud and allow for clean air to feed the jet turbines.
On April 7 , 1971 when she was Phnom Penh bureau chief for United Press International and one of a handful of women reporting on the war, North Vietnamese troops in Cambodia captured her and five other journalists and held them for 23 harrowing days.
The Golden Venture disgorged its human cargo -- 286 desperate Chinese immigrants who had endured 100 harrowing days at sea -- into the cold and pounding surf off Queens at 2 a.m. on June 6 , 1993
Danny described 90 harrowing minutes, first with the younger brother following in a second car, then with both brothers in the Mercedes, where they openly discussed driving to New York, though Danny could not make out if they were planning another attack.
In two weeks, this town in the coal-rich hills of Southwestern Pennsylvania will celebrate the first anniversary of what people here call "the miracle": the rescue of nine men trapped for 77 harrowing hours in a flooded mine 240 feet below the surface.
