Let's bring this thread back to life.
Here are a few more that I didn't see mentioned before:
The Grey
127 hours - true story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Ralston
Also I just summed up the thread a bit. Here is a list of the movies mentioned here - sorry if I missed some:
The Naked Prey
The Fast Runner
Rabbit proof fence
Ice age
Centurion
Far North
Waterwalker
Atanarjuat
Valhalla Rising - great! VERY bleak. If Bergman made a Viking film . . . .!
Snow Walker
Pathfinder - original version. Just got last month from amazon. MUCH better than the recent re-make imho.
The Way Back - a film based on the book 'The Long Walk' by Sławomir Rawicz http://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2010/oct/08/way-back-colin-farrell-trailer
Seraphim Falls
Tracker - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1414378/
The Last Trapper" - Le Dernier Trappeur
Never Cry Wolf" with Charles Martin Smith - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Cry_Wolf_(film)
The Conquest Of Everest
Deliverance
The Earthling
the river wild
Dersu Uzala, by Akira Kurasawa
Into the wild
Kukushka directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Death hunt
Alone in the Wilderness
Ronja Rövardotter
Challenge to be Free
Ofelas - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093668/
pathfinder (the?)
Jeremiah Johnson
Walkabout
Never Cry Wolf
The Hunted - starring Tommy Lee Jones and has a few bits about tracking, knife and flint making
Here are a few more that I didn't see mentioned before:
The Grey
127 hours - true story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Ralston
Also I just summed up the thread a bit. Here is a list of the movies mentioned here - sorry if I missed some:
The Naked Prey
The Fast Runner
Rabbit proof fence
Ice age
Centurion
Far North
Waterwalker
Atanarjuat
Valhalla Rising - great! VERY bleak. If Bergman made a Viking film . . . .!
Snow Walker
Pathfinder - original version. Just got last month from amazon. MUCH better than the recent re-make imho.
The Way Back - a film based on the book 'The Long Walk' by Sławomir Rawicz http://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2010/oct/08/way-back-colin-farrell-trailer
Seraphim Falls
Tracker - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1414378/
The Last Trapper" - Le Dernier Trappeur
Never Cry Wolf" with Charles Martin Smith - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Cry_Wolf_(film)
The Conquest Of Everest
Deliverance
The Earthling
the river wild
Dersu Uzala, by Akira Kurasawa
Into the wild
Kukushka directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Death hunt
Alone in the Wilderness
Ronja Rövardotter
Challenge to be Free
Ofelas - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093668/
pathfinder (the?)
Jeremiah Johnson
Walkabout
Never Cry Wolf
The Hunted - starring Tommy Lee Jones and has a few bits about tracking, knife and flint making