Favorite Survival Themed Movies?

Allan Molstad said:
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.
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Awesome. I was always wishing that they made a movie on this book. I didn't even know that they made one. Thanks for this info. I also read this book in Junior high. Has always been one of my favorites.

Thanks again.
 
I didn't know there was a movie made for Hatchet either. I love that book.

My five would be:

1.) First Blood
2.) Red Dawn
3.) Castaway
4.) Swiss Family Robinson (I can't believe this hasn't been mentioned yet.)
5.) Lassie's Great Adventure (This is an oldie but goodie where Lassie and Timmy are caught in a runaway hot-air balloon that then crashes deep in the Canadian wilderness.)
 
bladestunner said:
Awesome. I was always wishing that they made a movie on this book. I didn't even know that they made one.
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There are a lot of movies we can list that have some good parts that show some good survival skills, but this movie was mostly just about this kid alone with his hatchet.

The kid was not hunting indians, or a big killer, or the VC or a nuke...just him and his hatchet.

I remember in one part of the movie he was attempting to smash his way back into the floating plane when he dropped his hatchet!..
You could really tell how much the kid needed that hatchet, how he screamed, how he dove in to get it no matter what.

Thats one of the best shots of a true survival situation ever on film.
We get to see that in a real survival situation that hatchet was life, without the hatchet was death.
 
Someone beat me to it but the Naked Prey was great, also Northwest Passage with Spencer Tracy, Robert Young and Walter Brennen is another favorite movie and book
 
Since sheer will to live was mentioned (Schindler's List), I'll include any documentary about the siege of Stalingrad in WWII. Certainly anything about war has a big dose of that, but DAMN that was one long winter to get through...

How about "Alive!" about the soccer team whose plane crashed in the Andes? If you haven't seen it, I'll spare you the ending... let's say they had a very limited menu to choose from.

SkunkWerX said:
HAHahhaaaa!

Gibson, you don't look old enough to remember Quest for Fire.
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Don't hate me just because I'm beautiful. If it's any consolation, my innards are about 112 years old :D I blame it on rock'n'roll...
 
ras said:
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.
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Well, thanks for saving some people the bother of watching them.:rolleyes:
 
I went to the library today, and saw a movie there that I clean forgot. 'My Side of the Mountain'. Awesomely great movie, about a boy living in the wilderness alone raising a peregrine falcon from a hatchling. I loved the book, and the movie, while not as good as the book, which actually had quite a good bit of useful survival info in it, is still top-notch. I also checked out Hatchet by Gary Paulsen while I was there, time for a refresh on that one.
 
Touching the Void. One of the only good mainstream climbing movies, watching Cliffhanger or Vertical Limit makes me question whether I am going to die laughing or puking.
 
Not really a survival movie in the sense of Rambo or Death Hunt, but I just saw Jeremiah Johnson again. Great movie. Nowhere near as cool as the real story of Liver Eatin' Johnson though.
 
First Blood

Road Warrior

Saw

Cant remember the name of the movie but it has Charles Bronson on the run in the mountains, killing off all who pursue him.

MPE
 
wow, ya guys forgot bat21. what about 'this park is mine' ? remember that one? or bravo two zero. but my all time favorite is still red dawn though.
 
Buddiiee said:
wow, ya guys forgot bat21. what about 'this park is mine' ? remember that one? or bravo two zero. but my all time favorite is still red dawn though.
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'this park is mine' was a good one, though probably not widely seen. wasnt it an hbo movie?
 
Even though it didn't showcase any wilderness skills, I believe Blackhawk Down dealt with the subject of survival. And while I'm stretching the survival idea, how about West World?
 
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