RECOMMENDED SURVIVAL FILMS
By Mykel Hawke
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I’m often asked what my favorite survival movies are, and as you’ll see here, I have a long and growing list…and I’m sure I’ve missed more than a few. What makes a good survival flick? Being both a teacher and a student of the lifestyle, I like to see credibility and action that informs, but when a film is also entertaining or even light-hearted, it has the added potential of engaging many of the less knowledgeable, particularly kids.
While some films get it right, or mostly right, and others stray a bit too far into the Hollywood lane, there are usually good lessons and things to learn.
The one component common to all the best survival films is the psychology you will read often in the pages here, from me and other experts in the field, many times over, because even without tools and skills, the one thing that is most important to survival is the indomitable will of the human spirit…to never give up!
So have a survival movie night with the family, enjoy and learn together, use it as a springboard for discussion and to incorporate preparedness in your household. Grab some popcorn!
127 Hours
A Man Called Horse
A Quiet Place
Against the Ice
Alive
All is Lost
Beast
Black Water: Abyss
Captain Fantastic
Castaway
Centigrade
Contagion
Defiance
Desierto
Finch
Gold
Gravity
Greenland
Hacksaw Ridge
Hannah's War
Hart's War
Hidalgo
Horizon Line
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Hunted
I am legend
Into the wild
Io
Jeremiah Johnson
JoJo Rabbit
Kon Tiki
Life of Pi
Lord of the Flies
Master and Commander
Meander
Miracles Still Happen
Moonfall
Mud
Open Water
Oxygen
Papillion
Prey
Rabbit Proof Fence
Red Dawn
Rescue Dawn
Robinson Crusoe
Shackleton
Special Forces
The Book of Eli
The Bounty
The Decline
The Donner Party
The Great Escape
The Grey
The Jungle
The Martian
The Mountain Between
The Omega Man
The Pilot
The Rescue
The Revenant
The Road
The Way Back
Thirteen Lives
Touching the Void
Unbroken
Waterworld
Wings of Hope
