The movies I’ve seen and I know you can learn from (in order of absolute awesomeness and what you can learn):
I Am Legend – Survival / Self-reliance / Escape and Evasion
/ Medical / Psychological Strength / Armed Resistance (this movie is a
legend….to date; it is my personal opinion that this is the best “survival”
movie ever created. The attention to
detail is unbelievable. I will put a
review on this movies here later.)
The Crazies – Survival / Escape and Evasion
Zombieland – Basic Survival Rules (the rules in this movie are classic and are actually applicable
to true survival situations)
Terminator(Series) – Basic Survival (Terminator Salvation is the best in my opinion)
The Book of Eli – Armed resistance / Self-reliance / Escape
and Evasion / Bartering
The Road – Survival / Self-reliance / Escape and Evasion
Black Hawk Down –
Psychological Strength / Modern Combat / Escape and Evasion
Defiance – Armed resistance / Self-reliance / Escape and
Evasion
The Hunted – Escape and Evasion / Bushwhacking Skills
Right At Your Door - Survival / NBC Attacks / Viral
Infections
Reign of Fire – Community Survival / Conflict Management
Lord of the Flies – Survival / Community Survival /
Conflict Management
Behind Enemy Lines – Escape and Evasion
Alive – Community Survival / Mountaineering / Extreme Weather (Cold)
Tears of the Sun –
Modern Combat / Escape and Evasion
Rescue Dawn – Psychological Strength / Escape and Evasion
The Day After Tomorrow – Surviving / Extreme Weather (Cold)
The Postman – Good for general Survival
Apocalypto –
Psychological Strength
Apollo 13 –
Psychological Strength
Deliverance –
Survival / Paddle faster, I hear Banjos
Escape From New York –
Survival / Armed Resistance
Outbreak –
Viral Infections
Surviving the Game –
Survival / Escape and Evasion
The Poseidon Adventure –
Community Survival
Just for fun:
Sunshine – I know this is unrealistic, but I absolutely
love this movie.
Movies I still need to see and I can't tell you if they are
good or not (I included a description of them I found on Offgridsurvival.com
and Urbansurvivalsite.com):
Red Dawn: I need to watch this again. I saw it way to long ago to really remember
any of it
Alone in the Wilderness – Documentary about Richard Louis “Dick” Proenneke, a naturalist and survivalist living alone high in the mountains of Alaska at a place called Twin Lakes.
Alone in the Wilderness – Documentary about Richard Louis “Dick” Proenneke, a naturalist and survivalist living alone high in the mountains of Alaska at a place called Twin Lakes.
Alaska Silence & Solitude – A follow up Documentary to
Alone in the Wilderness. (25 years later)
Nanook of the North – A film that studies Eskimo life
including, hunting seal & walrus, building igloo’s and a number of other
Eskimo survival skills.
American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl – The story of
how people survived drought, dust, disease and famine.
American Experience – Influenza 1918 – A chilling look at
the flu pandemic of 1918 that killed an estimated 675,000 people.
20 Years After – A Post-Apocalyptic story of a young woman
who finds herself on a journey to deliver the first child to be born in over 15
years.
A Boy & His Dog – A twisted cult classic set in a
Post-Apocalyptic America that has inspired a number of apocalyptic movies.
The Last Man on Earth – Vincent Price stars in the first
big screen version of Richard Matheson classic, I am Legend.
The Omega Man – The Omega Man stars Charlton Heston in the
2nd on screen adaptation of the classic novel, I am Legend. This movie is a
classic end of the world zombie flick.
Shackleton– The Greatest Survival Story of All Time - Based
on the real life adventure of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s whose 1914 Antarctic
expedition turned out to be one of the greatest survival stories of all time.
Intothe Wild – The real life story of Christopher
McCandless, a man who shunned society and went off into the wilderness in
search of adventure. The movie gives a chilling look into what can go wrong
when an unprepared person tries to take on nature.
127 Hours – Based on the true story of Aron Ralston whose
journey into Utah’s Canyonlands National Park would become one of the most
horrific tales of endurance and courage ever told.
The Donner Party – Based on the real life events of a group
of pioneers who get stranded in the Sierra Nevada and resort to cannibalism to
survive.
Jeremiah Johnson – Robert Redford stars in the adventure
Jeremiah Johnson, a movie about a trapper who learns to survive as a mountain
man in the wilderness.
Never Cry Wolf - A biologist studies wild wolves accused of
killing herds.
The Edge - After crashing in the Wild Alaskan
wilderness two men find themselves teamed up against a giant Kodiak bear
in a brutal struggle for survival.
Damnation Alley – A
post-nuclear movie in which nearly all life has been wiped off the face of the
planet, leaving only a few survivors.
Deadly Harvest – A
movie that portrays what life could be like if there were a serious food
shortage.
Into Thin Air: Death on Everest –
Re-creates an ill-fated 1996 expedition to Everest that claimed at least five
lives, including those of two world-class climbers.
Lost in the Barrens – The
story of two boys’ exploration of the Canadian wilderness.
Man in the Wilderness –
After being given up for dead, Zachary Bass fights man and nature during his
600-mile Northwest Territory trek.
Survival Quest – It
was supposed to be the ultimate wilderness challenge: Four weeks at the North
Rockies Survival Quest School. But when the group crosses trails with an
unstable and sadistic paramilitary squad, a shocking accident turns their
nature trek into a desperate struggle for life and death.
