Rescue Videos

If your morning commute on public transportation has you convinced that all people are basically terrible, you need to watch this video. Right. Now.

Internet videos typically bring us one of two things -- either something terrible that makes you question the meaning of life, or cats... lots of cats. Well, today we present to you an internet video that might actually make you feel like you never saw the most awkward lip sync/love tribute ever.

When a heroic passerby in New York City's Bronx neighborhood heard screams coming from a burning building, he rushed to the aid of a little boy trapped inside. It isn't everyday that someone gets a chance to be a real-life hero, and it's even rarer to catch such a daring rescue on video!

Shipwrecks happen fairly frequently, and rescues at sea, while heroic, typically don't make global headlines. Unless one of the people doing the rescuing happens to be royalty, that is. On Sunday, Flight Lt. William Wales of the Royal Air Force -- you may know him better as the Duke of Cambridge or, even more commonly, Prince William -- was part of a helicopter crew that plucked two Russian sailor

Two children are alive today because of a quick-thinking mom, who made the agonizing decision to drop them from a third-story window while a fire raged.

On Monday, a Roxbury, MA firefighter took heroism to new heights by catching a terrified boy dropped from a window in a burning apartment building, according to 'Today.'

Justin Bieber has revived a viral video that's a real oldie-but-goodie. A few years, an amazing video of a dog in Santiago, Chile who darted out into the middle of a busy highway to rescue a wounded pooch went viral.

Four people recently found themselves in a precarious situation when a plane crashed into a ferris wheel at a rural festival in Australia, trapping two men in the plane and two children on the ride, MSNBC reports.

Typically, surfers will do just about anything to avoid a great white shark. But compassion entered into the picture when a baby great white shark washed up on shore in Venice Beach, Ca. over the weekend.