Recommended Survival Movies/Shows, Fictional or Otherwise...

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As far as fiction goes, I recently watched The Hunted, and thought it was worth a viewing. I've heard The Grey is also good.

For shows, I like Dual Survival - looking forward to the next season.
 
A Cry in the Wild...boy gets stranded at a remote lake after an airplane crash, has to make do with nothing but a hatchet.
 
The Road, Had my head spinning for weeks on how to prepare for the end of time.
 
Not so much a "survival movie", but I found a full movie version of "Knowing Is Everything" on Youtube last night. It was one of the few "EOTW" scenario movies I hadn't seen. It is a Nick Cage movie that evidently flopped at the box office because I had never heard of it before. A lot of it is hokey, as might be expected, but it did make me think.
 
IMHO, "The Grey" was horrible...The people depicted were so inept at survival, it became an exercise in frustration and disgust watching it. Now, granted, that may actually be realistic in terms of people in general -- it just did not make for good cinema.

"The Naked Prey" is one of the best survival movies I've seen (the survival being against armed hostiles as well as the environment).
 
JFrame said:
IMHO, "The Grey" was horrible...The people depicted were so inept at survival, it became an exercise in frustration and disgust watching it. Now, granted, that may actually be realistic in terms of people in general -- it just did not make for good cinema.
Spoiler alert.

That movie is what is great and terrible about hollywood. The story line I found to be fantastic and so was the acting. Then, they had to spoil it by the need that hollywood has to jazz everything up. Spoiling it with an unrealistic portrayal of wolves. The fact that the characters new nothing of survival made it more realistic to me. People that study survival stuff are in the teeny tiny minority.
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You tube is full of great stuff. Les stroud, ray mears, cody lundin, etc. search around there and you will find videos for days.
My all time favorite is the Dick Proenicki film, Alone In the Wilderness.
Theres also a doc called Alone In the Wild thats a good watch.
 
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