Johann David Wyss

A Swiss settler family are shipwrecked on a desert island. (imdb)

Marsha Robinson, host of a TV cooking show, takes her family on a working vacation to a South Seas Island but their yacht is hijacked by pirates, and then shipwrecked, and the Robinsons must survive Marsha's complaints while they build a treehouse, meet a handsome carpenter, bond together as a family and fight off the pirates... (imdb)

A present-day retelling of the classic story of the Swiss Family Robinson.

David Robinson is being shipped off to a penal colony. His wife and kids are allowed to acompany him. A storm strikes the ship and the family (save for one son, Jacob) are trapped below deck. Jacob is raised by pirates, and the family gets out of the boat and on to land, salvaging as much as they can from the boat. They learn to survive and build a shelter on land.

This is the first adaptation of the 1812 novel Swiss Family Robinson, it retells the perils of a family shipwrecked on a desert island.

When the Robinsons plan to go to start a new life in Australia, they run into a storm that completely changes their lives. (imdb)