Best Survival Movies

'The Snow Walker' is a rather good Canadian movie starring Barry Pepper and Annabella Piugattuk. Classic survival scenario of a downed plane in the Arctic.
It's based on the story 'Walk Well My Brother' by Farley Mowat.
If you enjoy this forum, it's an absolute must.
 
"Alone in the Wilderness", the story about Dick Proenneke and his survival in the Alaskan wilderness. Originally aired on PBS and is available on DVD. Dick's journals and photographs are available in book form under the title, "One Man's Wilderness". There's no hollywood actors in the film but it's the most entertaining and authentic survival movie I've seen.

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How about Heaven knows mr. alison about a Marine who is in WWII that is in a raft and flaots to a island and has to survive with just his kabar knife and nun who he meets on the island. Then the japs come to the island and the fun really begins for the Marine and his One Knife.
 
I have to post my "vote" on the best of the list so far...all of these are great, and there is a few I havn't seen...but the best one for me is "Jeremia Johnson"..it was such a great film that is great everytime. I also loved "Snowwalker", and it was very sad at the end." "The Edge" with Anthony Hopkins and Bart the Bear was really good to. These are all great fictions that touch on the skills and guts it takes to survive.
 
+1 for "Island in the Sky" with John Wayne. The movie is basically a survival story, but Wayne is forced to keep a plane-load of airmen alive in totally horrific arctic conditions. I enjoy it not so much for the acting (I don't think the entire cast took it seriously), but because each of the crew manifests different reactions to a survival situation that were fairly believeable.

+1 for "Dersu Uzala" as well. Yup: someone else knows that movie! Although the survival scenes are pretty much right up front; once Dersu is taken to Moscow, that element pretty much leaves the movie. But the scene where the tough, trained Russian military surveyor starts to succumb to the Siberian blizzard...and where Dersu calmly uses the guys' surveying equipment to construct an awesome shelter...totally haunting. Stayed with me for 25 years.

Did anyone mention "Alive"? This is the soccer-team-plane-crash story. Some scenes are fairly terrifying. I cite this one as an example of the "do we stay put or do we risk walking to safety" that's at the heart of so many survival stories.
 
zman308 said:
Great movie but a sad ending.
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You mean The Edge? It was pretty sad when Alec Baldwin got to eat part of Bart the Bear instead of the other way around.

FWIW, regarding the top three, I would vote for Jeremiah Johnson, The Edge, and The Hunted. Sentimental favorites: Robinson Crusoe and Swiss Family Robinson. Can't think of a reason why Rambo (carry big hollow knives?) or Deliverance (don't smile?) should be on the list.
 
sicily02 said:
How about Heaven knows mr. alison about a Marine who is in WWII that is in a raft and flaots to a island and has to survive with just his kabar knife and nun who he meets on the island. Then the japs come to the island and the fun really begins for the Marine and his One Knife.
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Do you mean "Hell in the Pacific" with Lee Marvin?
 
Nanook of the north. I remember as a kid they showed that in my second or third grade class. My mine was blown. Kids eating seal's eyes for dessert. But it was a great movie.
 
That movie with Ice T was ok but I preferred the book it was based "The Most Dangerous Game". Who can forget "Blue Lagoon" with the young and budding Brooke Sheilds.
 
To be honest, most of my survival knowledge comes from my favourite survival movie, Horrors of Spider Island. This 1960ish movie is about a plane full of strippers that crashes on a remote island populated by spiders which bite their manager and turn him into a spider-monster with one big fange in the middle of his upper jaw.


I don't expect to last long out there, really.
 
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