Favorite Survival Themed Movies?

pit man said:
The Last Trapper and Touching The Void......both very different but both very good !!!:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
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Hey pit man. Just watched The Last Trapper tonight - really enjoyed it. The scenery blows you away. I also have the book. Picked it up at Chapters on the reduced table. It's what motivated me to see the movie, and when I read your post, I had to pay a visit to Blockbuster.

Doc
 
I liked The Edge with Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin...

not exactly a survival film, but I thought it was well done.
 
There was a book I once read in grade school called "Hatchet" about a kid my age who was in a plane crash and spent 50 days in the woods alone with just a hatchet to do everything with.

Later I saw the book was turned into a movie called "A cry in the Wild"

Although the acting is not so great, still, the whole film is about this one little kid and his hatchet that he has to use to do everything with.

It turned out to be a very good film about how to make a shelter, and find food in the woods.

That hatchet is the most important part of the movie.

30 + years later I still remember this movie, I would love to catch it again on Tv some time.
 
the edge and hunted are two of my favourites. watching the hunted prompted me to buy my tom brown tracker and red scorpion six predator
 
As far as movies with good survival situations. I would have to say there are many:
Cold Mountain
Last of the Mohicans
Southern Comfort
Four Feathers

amongst the ones already listed. As far as themes, I can't name any in addition.
I am just starting to read "Camping and Woodcraft", wouldn't it be interesting if a movie was made of Nessmuk's life and times? On that note, it appears that a film adaptation of "Patriots" may be in the works.:thumbup:
 
hatchet is one of my favorite books...I've seen cry in the wild too. , gary paulsen is probably the best author for young adolecent boys. Speaking of books, have any of you read the postman by david brin.... great post apocyliptic read if any of you are into that sort of literature. The Kevin Costner movie "loosely" based on it is one of the worst ever though, so don't let that dissuade you from the book.

Dances with wolves, ie the only good Costner movie I thinks fits in here too, I have always liked survival stories about the old west...

The Edge rules in this catagory I think, but my favorite is the Road Warrior.
 
WOW!

I really forgot about "Naked Prey" I loved that movie and watched religiously growing up. That movie was great.


Thanks so much for posting that list!
 
Brian Garfield wrote a book called "Fear in a Handful of Dust". It was made into a movie called Fleshburn. I read the book and saw the movie back in the late 80's. It seemed ok at the time but i have not seen it since so it may not hold up well.
Fleshburn Plot summary from imdb
"A soldier who deserted because of spiritual beliefs was tried and evaluated by four psychiatrists, and they all concluded that he was unable to distinguish right from wrong, so he was sentenced to a mental hospital. One day, he escapes and kidnaps them and leaves them all in the middle of the desert".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087270/plotsummary
 
Another vote for Snow Walker. Another one I really liked was a 1980 movie staring William Holden and Ricky Schroder called *The Earthling*.
 
These are all great movies listed above. I would also like to add Deathhunt with Charles Bronson to the list. If you havent seen it rent it.
 
RescueRiley said:
My side of the mountain was a classic when I was a kid...as was Jerimiah Johnson, and the outsider----Dying austraillian outback loner teaches a boy how to survive. The edge (of course) The hunted---well as a one time student of kali I still have to hunt for reasons to like it. Never Cry wolf was good. Castaway (although it was about an hour to long...typical for tom hanks) as far as bad but fun movies ( icant's remember the name of it) but Iced -t or iced cube or one of those guys is abducted by some rich guys and set loose in the woods so they can hunt 'em...This also brings to mind running man not a wilderness survival movie but a fun watch none the less.
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Jerimiah Johnson is in my top 3... Not so much as a Survival Movie, but just a good story, and good lessons that could apply to a survival situation.

There was a movie about a "city Slicker" who went west to survive as a trapper.. A grizzled old trapper took this tenderfoot under hius wing and showed him how to survive.. I remember him teaching this guy how to properly fell a large tree. Anybody remember the name of the movie? IT was a good movie chocked full of survival tips!
 
Remember the one part in Quest For Fire, where they young girl shows how to spin a stick to start a fire?

The whole movie was a bit odd, but that one part was interesting to watch.
At the time I watched her get the fire going I felt I was learning how to do something...
 
I don't buy many DVDs, but I did buy Snow Walker and Island in the Sky. While the pilot in Snow Walker walked out, the crew in Island stays with the plane and eventually gets found. Both in the vast Canadian north.
 
ashtxsniper said:
These are all great movies listed above. I would also like to add Deathhunt with Charles Bronson to the list. If you havent seen it rent it.
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Oh man! Deathhunt was great with Lee Marvin as world weary mountie. God that was a great flick too!
 
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