Dersu Uzala, by Akira Kurasawa
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071411/
apparantly it is a true story about a Siberian guide
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071411/
apparantly it is a true story about a Siberian guide
The last trapper, the nearest you'll see to a bushcraft 'movie'. It's half movie half documentary, all the incidents are staged but serves as an example of what can and does happen over the years. No real plot, the cast are real old school trappers living in log cabins all their working lifes, they build their own cabins, travel in birch bark canoes or dog sleighs, hunt their own food, tend their trap lines while at the same telling their story of how their way of life is rapidly coming to an end due to the mass logging of the Yukon.
Floating around on torrent at the mo, well worth tracking down.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395514/
A film/documentary based in Alaska, with a man called Dick Prenoke ( sorry about the spelling). cant remember the actual name but its some where along the lines of Alone In the Wild. its on my hard drive somewhere so ill check when i get home
Surely that would make a better reality TV show than the nonsense we get? I just seen an advert for a program about building sites in New York! A building site is a building site, no matter where it is. A site in New York is no more exotic than a site in York. Ice Road Truckers looked good for one episode, but now it seems like," Here is a man driving a lorry over ice, here is another, here is another, this man broke down, this one didn't".
Walkabout was pretty good, though it's funny to read the reviews. Back when it was released the big whoptydoo was the frontal nudity, and today the main discussion seems to be all the killed animals.How times change.
I'm about to watch Snow Walker tomorrow btw. http://www.snowwalkerthemovie.com/
Looks like a movie right up our alley so to speak
*Edit* Oh boy.. what a movie =) It's beautiful, it's gripping, and it has a lot of bushcrafting. I just love it when you find a relatively unknown movie and it turns out to be brilliant. This will definately be a must-have for my dvd collection.
atanarjuat: The Fast Runner is a good bushcraft film (long too)
there is a website with some info: www.atanarjuat.com
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Rabbit proof fence is a most mind boggling true story of a couple of kids walking miles back home in Australia...