Real wilderness..."Quest for Fire"
1 million years B.C. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au5nMXrbRpc
Didn't think you buried it deep enough.
Often Accused, Often Guilty but Seldom Guilty of What I am Accused.
"He says you fish poorly."
Ride due west as the sun sets. Turn left at the Rocky Mountains.
jeremiah johnson
can you skin griz just as fast as you can bringem heres one pilgrim ill get ya another one
Continental Divide ( J.Belushi)
Last of the Dog Men
along with the others
saw right offOriginally Posted by sasquatch2014
I think Cold Missouri Waters is the "smoke jumpers" movie I saw years ago. There were three survivors, who did what they were told, following procedure, and lived.
There are a lot of smoke jumpers movies.
I don't know how realistic they are.
I understand the smoke jumpers are not called-in so much, now, the federal forest management policy has been to not allow cutting permits for "firewood" and so the forest fires burn much hotter.
In addition, I would like to mention I always thought Alan Lad westerns were more realistic, that, and the "Sky King" tv show.
I really liked Last of the Dogmen: I have the DVD.
That is the most authentic wilderness movie I have seen in awhile.
I saw Bears. I think the man was an idiot. The filmmaker made the best possible film.
I think John McPhee's book: Up from the Plains has a realistic portrayal of the early west family life, as well as, a great geology book about landforms.
Have a look at James Willard Schultz "wiki": some of his stories are very authentic.
I understand Ivan Doig's books are good. Some people hate his books. I don't recall the name, but he had one book about a ranger in Glacier National Park region. I think it was Ivan Doig. It was about drawing the map.
My favorite author about the era is Calvin Rutstrum, North American Canoe Country, and, Wilderness Cabin.
Dude, Where's My Car?
"Why is it a penny for your thoughts, but you always have to put your two cents in?"
- Stephen Wright
The Road is pretty good, except for the lame ending which seems like it was written with the help of focus group interviews.
Dersu Uzala, from the days when men were men and you could see a pack's frame right out in the open.
Cant belive no one has said Southbounders.
It was okay, but is about thru hiking on the AT.
Into the Wild was good
Deliverance is a classic
SMSP
Jeremiah Johnson for sure, especially the mt. man Del Que (with an E)!. Great quote from Jeremiah Johnson,"You've come far Pilgram" Answer: "Feels like far". The Road was very interesting (and depressing), so I'll list it as I think it fits here. I might add Red Dawn, living off the land and fighting the 1980's Russian and Cuban army in the moutains of Colorado, how could any 1980's teenager like me not love that wilderness movie?
"I told my Ma's and Pa's I was coming to them mountains and they acted as if they was gutshot. Ma, I sez's, them mountains is the marrow of the world and by God, I was right". Del Gue
I didn't see this one on the list, so I thoight I would add it. Sidney Poitier, Kirstie Alley, Tom Berenger. A decent action movie, but an excellent outdoor movie set in the Pacific Northwest wilderness.
Shoot to Kill (1988) »
A man is discovered breaking into his own jewelery shop in the dead of night. Questioned closely, it is learnt that his wife is being held hostage by an extortionist who demands the diamonds in the shop's safe. The extortionist manages to escape FBI agent Warren Stantin, who subsequently chases him into the forests of Northern America. Stantin recruits the help of a reluctant local Jonathon Knox, who has the skills necessary to track down the criminal. The only problem is that Stantin has no experience in the wilderness...
Tom Berenger was in Last of the Dogmen. I like it enough, I got the DVD.
A couple others I thought of that didn't see mentioned:
Legends of the Fall
Cliffhanger
Vertical Limit
Cabin Fever - if you like horror movies
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The TV series CENTENNIAL, how about that? And then there was MAN IN THE WILDERNESS and WILL PENNY. Did you read and then see FOLLOW THE RIVER? Two films that got me to pondering about whether I could rise to the occasion if need be, hiking over mountains to escape whatever tyranny was going to get me and others if we couldn't climb over those mountains, were INN OF THE SIXTH HAPPINESS and, yes, SOUND OF MUSIC. Okay, that is really tangential thinking, but to me they are related and to some extent, each changed my ability to live a bit.--Kinnickinic
You never know just what you can do until you realize you absolutely have to do it.
--Salaun
Mountain Men with Charlton Heston and Brian Keith is a decent flick.
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Insanity: Asking about inseams over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein, (attributed)
Here's a real oldie but goodie. Deemed today by some, however, to be somewhat controversial:http://www.answers.com/topic/northwest-passage-film-1
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