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In the list of Jackie Chan stunts the star has come close to death more times than you can count. Still, he keeps going, making some of the best martial arts movies in the history of cinema. Here are seven Jackie Chan Films in which he nearly died, or at least suffered serious injuries.

One of his first movies was Snake in the Eagle's Shadow. During this movie he didn't quite avoid a sword which should have been blunted. The result was a spray of real blood, and the screams you hear are of his actual pain.

In the filming of Police Story he was almost paralyzed. He slid down a pole in one action packed sequence, exploding all the lights and ripping electrical wires and falling through a glass cover. In this scene he broke the seventh and eighth vertebra in his backbone, and severely dislocated his hip.

During the filming of Crime Story Jackie had a scene in which he was between two cars which were crashing together. Either his timing, or the drivers' timing was not quite what it should have been. The sequence resulted in one Jackie Chan Stunt, and a star with two crushed legs.

He has injured his knees numerous times, and doubts that he has much cartilage left. One of the worst knee injuries happened during, of all things, a skateboard scene. The movie was City Hunter.

One of his most famous injuries was during a scene while filming Rumble in the Bronx. He leaped and broke his ankle when landing on a hovercraft. You can see, if you look carefully, the cast on his leg in some of the scenes.

He nearly broke his neck during one of his more famous scenes during Project A. In this scene he fell, bounced from awning to awning, before landing on his head on the ground. You can see this scene, and other out takes of the same stunt, at the end of the movie.

The worst injury he ever suffered, however, was while making the Armour of God. He leaped to a tree, missed the limb he was aiming for, and bashed his head on the ground. The star is a trooper however, for within two days of nearly dying from a broken skull and hemorrhaging brain, he was back starring in more of his incredible Jackie Chan Stunts.