Survival films.

[Sarge47]

For those who are interested:

28 Days Later
Andromeda Strain
Blast From the Past
Amerika
By Dawn's Early Light
Category 6
Category 7
Control
Day of the Triffids
Deep Impact
Def-Con 4
Dr. Strangelove
Fail Safe
Five
Invasion USA
Jeremiah Johnson
Last Night
Mad Max
Massive Retaliation
Miracle Mile
My Side of the Mountain
Night of the Comet
One Night Stand
On the Beach(1959)
On the Beach(2000)
Packin' It In
Panic In Year Zero
Postman
Quarantine
Quintet
Radioactive Dreams
Ravagers
Red Dawn
Special Bulletin
Swiss Family Robinson
Testament
The Core
The Day After
The Day After Tomorrow
The Enemy Within
The Fire Next Time
The Last Man on Earth
The Missing
The Omega Diary
The Omega Man
The Postman
The Quiet Earth
The Stand
The Survivors
The Trigger Effect (how to everything wrong and still survive)
The Village
The World, The Flesh and The Devil
This is Not A Test
Until the End of the World
Virus
When the Wind Blows
I am Legend

[ClovisMan]

The Great Outdoors with John Candy and Dan Akroyd
If you can survive a week with Uncle Roman then you've really accomplished something.

[tsitenha]

The Edge and Man in the Wilderness

[dougz]

"The Edge" really f***** me up.. LOL

I can't even go berry-picking anymore, for fear of bears.. :(

[doug1980]

I saw that movie for the first time last weekend. It was really good. My mistake was having my wife watch it, now she doesn't want to go hiking.

[trax]

Everyone always winds up mentioning the edge. WE asked in a thread for us to post what we saw those guys doing wrong and when I typed in my answers, I timed out before I could post it all. There's a good movie for what not to do in the wilderness.

[doug1980]

Hunted was a good movie.

[crashdive123]

One of these days I'm going to have to watch The Edge.

[dougz]

It was really good.

Yup, sure was..

Alec Baldwin was really good in it..

[mitch.chesney]

Without a paddle (not really survival but close to it in a comedic sense)
Did they make a "Hatchet" movie?
Lost from ABC. At least the first season and a half
Into the Wild (though that kid did so many stupid things)
Behind enemy lines (evasion)
umm... that Predator movie with Arnold?

[DOGMAN]

What about Death Hunt and First Blood

[DOGMAN]

City Slickers???

[DOGMAN]

The Snow Walker
Nice film about a bush pilot who crashes and is taught about survival from his Inuit client, who is deathly ill

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The Snow Walker
Nice film about a bush pilot who crashes and is taught about survival from his Inuit client, who is deathly ill

That's an awesome movie.

[nell67]

Looks like I have alot of movie watching to catch up on,I have seen NONE of these films:(

[chiggersngrits]

Papillon, thats one determined fellow.

[red lake]

The Snow Walker
Nice film about a bush pilot who crashes and is taught about survival from his Inuit client, who is deathly ill
I also cast my vote, (this is a vote right?) for this movie.

Also watched Snowshoes and Solitude a few weeks ago and it is also a top notch film.

How about Books? Is there a thread on Survival Books?

[crashdive123]

Red Lake - this one seems to be the most popular thread on books. http://www.wilderness-survival.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3200&highlight=currently+reading

[Runs With Beer]

One of these days I'm going to have to watch The Edge.

Be ready,\Its vewy vewy scarey.

[laughing beetle]

Fail Safe was a GOOD movie! Watch it if you get the chance. It's an old black and white. Walter Mathau was in it. Very, very good movie. Lord of the Flies was a good survival movie too, that one still creeps me out. Mostly because it is so true.

[Sarge47]

Did they make a "Hatchet" movie?
There was a low-budget film titled "A Cry In The Wild" that was based on a book titled "Hatchet". Is that what you're talking about?:confused::cool:

[Indiana Camper]

Dawn Of The Dead....one of my favorites.

[artofwoc]

There was a low-budget film titled "A Cry In The Wild" that was based on a book titled "Hatchet". Is that what you're talking about?:confused::cool:

I can confirm it, it is correct good movie but excellent book:) i liked the book better.

not a book for older men but a good book for the young guns..

[Stairman]

Alone in the widerness by Dick Prenneke is a great video.I saw o PBS and googled it and bought it.Watched it once and gave it to my dad and might have to ask for it back,Id love to watch it again,possibly once a month or so,its that good.[Wilderness]to lazy to retype.

[tipacanoe]

Never Cry Wolf, was pretty good. Seems like in the mid 90's. Guy gets left off on a lake to study wolves, watches the plane leave, fall into the lake, and how he makes it.

[red lake]

tipacanoe, That movie was based on a Farley Mowat book. Read the book, it is Waaaaaaay better than that crappy movie

[dougz]

Yup, awesome book (though I thought the movie was fairly good, too)..

As was "Lost in the Barrens", and the sequel "Curse of the Viking Grave".

[Tracker]

Rambo? First blood at least

[crashdive123]

According to Amazon, here are the top ten survival films of all time. http://www.amazon.com/Best-Survival-Movies/lm/R37O569W0NLUSA While I may not agree with "top ten" status, it's not a bad list.

[dougz]

it's not a bad list

Swiss Family Robinson?? Blue Lagoon??!!!

I have to respectfully disagree.. :)

[crashdive123]

Classics I tell ya, classics! (just kidding)

[dougz]

You might as well add "Black Stallion" to the list.. :)

[red lake]

Deep Water 1 and 2 are good ones too, but they did not survive.

[rebel]

Just watched the movie "The Way Back". A true story about escaping a Siberian gulag in 1940.

[SARKY]

How about "The Road"?

[Rick]

Fail Safe is an excellent movie. Lord of the Flies certainly deals with personalities in a pretty real way. A lot of symbolism in it.

[Batch]

"Alive" off of the list Amazon would probably be the best. Learning survival from a movie would be like learning about sharks from "Jaws" before you go down and feed them. LOL

So, the Edge was pretty good on those terms.

Also Robinson Crusoe was written about a real man, Alexander Selkirk. He was put ashore at his own request over the seaworthiness of the ship. The ship sank and killed most onboard. He couldn't eat fish (he could eat lobster). So , that caused him to move inland where he found fresh water and goats and pigs left by the Spanish. He lived for 4 years and 4 months on that island before rescue. Pretty cool real story to the novel(s). Course he was a Scottsman so if yer not of the gewd blood you'll just die...:innocent:

[Sparky93]

What about Castaway, any movie that can make you cry over a volleyball floating away has some good acting.

[Rick]

Yes, I thought the roll of Wilson was exceptionally well played. I found myself almost believing that he WAS a volleyball. Certainly worthy of an academy award nomination, IMO.

[crashdive123]

Those movie producers were sooooooooooooo lucky that the volleyball was a Wilson. Can you imagine how awkward it would have appeared for Tom Hanks to be running around shouting FART.....FART, because the volleyball was one of those promotional items made for the Foothills Arena Rapid Transit system's anniversary celebration.

[pgvoutdoors]

I liked the movie the Edge. IMO, it depicts two of the men as being totally out of their element and a third is trying to adapt by utilizing theory of survival, he has no real experience in the outdoors he is only book smart. In the end the will to survive proves most valuable. The movie has some great one line quotes, I especially like the "What one man can do, another man can do".

The movie is not a how-to movie but is entertaining and can make a novice outdoorsman think about how things can go bad.

[BENESSE]

Just recently saw an oldie (1962, Ray Milland!) I wasn't even aware of:
"Panic In Year Zero" -- LA family flees their home just before the city is hit by a hydrogen bomb. Doesn't take long for people's true nature to surface at first signs of adversity.
It's refreshing to see a movie once in a while without all the special effects, quick cuts and ramboism.

[Sarge47]

Just recently saw an oldie (1962, Ray Milland!) I wasn't even aware of:
"Panic In Year Zero" -- LA family flees their home just before the city is hit by a hydrogen bomb. Doesn't take long for people's true nature to surface at first signs of adversity.
It's refreshing to see a movie once in a while without all the special effects, quick cuts and ramboism.

There were several of these movies made, if you ever get the chance check out "The World, The Flesh, & The Devil" starring Harry Belefonte! :cool2:

[Jessedr]

The edge is a good movie, there are also a lot of older movies of survival in the wild, and as Benesse says the movie Panic in year zero was a good movie. SEMPER FI. MY FRIENDS.

[LowKey]

I just got a DVD of The Omega Man. I remembered that movie giving me nightmares as a kid.
But, watching it now, even though the movie is pretty bad, all the little survival things Neville is shown doing was just so right.
Right down to filling the roof fed gravity water system, his stores of canned goods, and the piles of storage in his garage.
Of course, one should be so lucky that 98% of the world population keels over dead before they can ravage the stuff on the store helves.
If you want to consider that lucky...

Funny thing, I was actually recently thinking of an elevated holding tank to hold roof water for my garden. Several years now of no rain in July/August is a trend I have to deal with next year.

[Rick]

I like The Omega Man. Heston did a good job in it. My life's ambition is to be the guy that holds the only known antidote for whatever is killing the rest of the world. My luck I'd drop it and break the syringe.

[Blake Fister]

Not really a film but a tv series. Just started watching it pretty sure its a few years old. Surviving Disaster. A How-To survive or atleast increase odds of survival from things to avalanches to home invasions and so on. There's some nifty ideas on there.

[bobzilla]

"War of the Roses"..............I still have nightmares!

Thanks,Bob

[crashdive123]

Defiance. Based on a true story. Here's the wiki write up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defiance_%282008_film%29

[huntermj]

Jeremiah Johnson is a faverate of mine.
Please help me out here. There was a movie i saw years ago about an older man who goes out into the wilderness to die and meet's a young kid whose parent's died in a plane crash. he teaches him to survive as they trek about. i cant think of the name but would like to see the movie again.

[Blake Fister]

I think i found the movie you were talking about Hunter. The Earthling

google The Earthling Wiki Pretty much sounds like it to me. Sounds good though.

[Sarge47]

I like The Omega Man. Heston did a good job in it. My life's ambition is to be the guy that holds the only known antidote for whatever is killing the rest of the world. My luck I'd drop it and break the syringe.

"The Omega Man" was a remake of an earlier film; "The Last Man on Earth," starring Vincent Price. Later Will Smith re-created it with "I Am Legend." :cool2:

Also, like Crash i enjoyed "Defiance." I liked it so well I bought the DVD.