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For Turkish prison survival techniques I like to refer to Midnight Express from time to time ;)
 
Gerberblades said:
For urban survival, The Omega Man with Charlton Heston is a cult classic. A good one to get some friends over to watch with your favorite beverage.
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From the book "I am Legend" by Richard Matheson.

The first film version was "The Last Man on Earth" with Vincent Price. Matheson wrote the screenplay, but had his name removed due to some last minute re-writes. Fairly close to the book. By the way, the baddies were vampires, not zombies.

"The Omega Man" is still my favorite film version of the story.

kgd said:
There was this other move in the 1990's. I can't remember the title, but here is the plot and maybe someone can think of it. The actor I think was the main guy who played in the TV-series 'coach'. He had lost his toddler son in the Amazon jungle and every year came back to search for his boy. The one year he hears of the boys emergence from the jungle. Apparently he was taken in by a tribe. Dad and the boy re-unite. Jungle boy is having some trouble adapting to his city stay and flees back to the jungle. Dad follows him in, they get tracked by a competing cannibal tribe, and the boy leads him safely to his own tribes.
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"The Emerald Forest," directed by John Boorman (He also directed "Excalibur," "Deliverance,' and "Zardoz.") It starred Powers Boothe. Based on a true story.

If I might reccommend a book - "Dies The Fire" by S.M. Stirling.

It's about a sudden, violent change in the laws of physics. Gasoline engines, steam engines, gunpowder, explosives, electricity and electrical generation no longer function.

As you can expect, modern society breaks down, and reverts to the middle ages.

It's the first of a trilogy.
 
Cool Centaur - thanks for jogging my memory. I'm going to try and locate the Emerald Forest again.
 
I just thought of another good survival movie that I dont think has been posted. "The White Dawn". The true story of three whalers stranded up north and taken in by aborignals. This is a real good flick.
 
The film version of Cormac McArthy's The Road Is supposed to be released soon. Viggo Mortensen plays the role of the father. A google search resulted in some interviews and images. That was the most disturbing and frightening books I ever read (shudder).
 
Anyone remember thta cheesy b flick "Band of the Hand"? It's where some ex military indian dude that takes a bunch of troubled inner city kids into the swamps of Florida and gives them directions on survival. They have to make it to a designated destination in a given amount of time. I like the movie because of the Buck survival knife-hollow handle model with spikes on the ends of the guard. I think it was model 162??
 
GIBBY said:
Anyone remember thta cheesy b flick "Band of the Hand"? It's where some ex military indian dude that takes a bunch of troubled inner city kids into the swamps of Florida and gives them directions on survival. They have to make it to a designated destination in a given amount of time. I like the movie because of the Buck survival knife-hollow handle model with spikes on the ends of the guard. I think it was model 162??
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I remember that one. i liked it at the time. Didn't Michael Mann have producing credits on that one? Wasn't Edward James Olmos in that?(guess i'm wrong imdb says no)
I need to track down a copy and see if it is still watchable.
 
Anyone remember a movie that came out in the 90's called, "Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog".

It's about a teenager and his yellow lab stranded in British Columbia for 3 weeks.
 
porkchop said:
Anyone remember a movie that came out in the 90's called, "Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog".

It's about a teenager and his yellow lab stranded in British Columbia for 3 weeks.
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Yeah, I do. He used a SAK-type knife in the movie, I remember that. It was, actually, decent (albeit corny).
 
GIBBY said:
Anyone remember thta cheesy b flick "Band of the Hand"? It's where some ex military indian dude that takes a bunch of troubled inner city kids into the swamps of Florida and gives them directions on survival. They have to make it to a designated destination in a given amount of time. I like the movie because of the Buck survival knife-hollow handle model with spikes on the ends of the guard. I think it was model 162??
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LOL, I have it. :D


And th, EJ Olmos was not in it.

Doc
 
Really good responses guys. I've got a bumper list for Xmas now so I can watch and read some good stuff while eating my turkey sandwiches.

Summary:
Films:
Death Hunt, The Edge, Seraphym Falls, Last of the Mohicans, Dersu Uzala, The Earthling, Man in the Wilderness, Naked Prey, A far off place, The Mountain Men, Survival Quest, Alone in the Wilderness, The Mosquito Coast, First Blood, Deliverance, Legend of Jose Wales, Worlds Most Dangerous Game, Cry in the Wild, The Day After, Surviving the Game, Red Dawn, The Postman, Band of the Hand, Alive, Into the Wild, The Last Trapper, Little Big Man, BlackRobe, Nanook of the North, The Fast Runner, The Hunted, WHite Water Summer, The Adventures of the Wilderness Family, The Goonies, Apocalypto, I am Legend, The Omega Man, Cast Away, Blue Lagoon, Crocodile Dundee, Adaptation, Bridge over the river Kwai, Last of the Dogmen, Ship Wreck, Rogue Male, Distant Thunder, Cold River
The Silence of the North, Clan of the Cave Bear, The Gods Must be Crazy, Hell on the Pacific, Enemy Mine, Papillon, The Emerald Forrest, The White Dawn. Far from Home the Adventures of Yellow Dog.


Books:
Loui Lamour books, Last of the Breed, In The Shining Mountains by David Thompson, The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert, Laurens Van Der Post's A Story Like the Wind (1972), and A Far-Off Place (1974), Jack London's To Make a Fire, Mountain Man by Vardis Fisher and Crow Killer:The Saga of Liver Eating Johnson by Raymond W. Thorp. The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge, Across the Wide Missouri, James Dickey's To the White Sea, Alas Babylon, Dies The Fire series from SM Stirling, and Tunnel in The Sky by Robert Heinlein. Gary Paulson "Brians" books, starting with hatchet. World War Z and the zombie survival guide, both by Max Brooks also highly entertaining. Robinson Crusoe.

Might have missed a couple if so feel free to copy and paste them in.
 
Not meant as a hijack of the thread, but I've seen some references to downloading movies with torrents. Could someone explain this to me, or point me in the right direction for some info.-Thanks
 
Hey RoyalM, when I agreed with kgd about The Outlaw Josey Wales, I was agreeing with him about being a good movie, not a survival-oriented one really. Just FYI.

Doc
 
not a movie, but a book : Life Of Pi . it is mostly about ocean survival, which isnt all that interesting to me, but the other content was good.
 
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