Bushcraft films

[slaine_23]

Am watching the movie Prey, part of the Predator franchise. Whatever else you may or may not enjoy about it, it shows some bushcraft skills, particularly of a native American variety. Anyway, I enjoyed it.
Question is, are there other films - not documentaries - that highlight or use bushcraft skills. Ideally a movie that could be shown to scouts.
Recommendations welcome, thanks.

 

[TeeDee]

The Hunted.

It get rightly slated , is massively Hollywood. But the tracking scenes are at least interesting.

 

[HillBill]

Revenant? Based on a true story, American frontier.. Hugh Glass. Ray Mears did an episode on it as part of his American wilderness series, or at least spoke about it.

 

[CLEM]

Dersu Uzala (Russian: Дерсу Узала; alternate U.S. titles: With Dersu the Hunter and Dersu the Trapper) is a 1923 memoir by the Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev, concerning his travels in the Russian Far East with the Goldihunter Dersu Uzala.

The story was made into a 1975 film Dersu Uzala,a Japanese Russian Co production directed by Akira Kurosawa. And it’s GREAT. One of my all time favourites

 

[William_Montgomery]

Dersu Uzala (Russian: Дерсу Узала; alternate U.S. titles: With Dersu the Hunter and Dersu the Trapper) is a 1923 memoir by the Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev, concerning his travels in the Russian Far East with the Goldihunter Dersu Uzala.

The story was made into a 1975 film Dersu Uzala,a Japanese Russian Co production directed by Akira Kurosawa. And it’s GREAT. One of my all time favourites

I'll be checking that out.

 

[Broch]

The Snow Walker - based on the book Walk Well My Brother.

A story about winter survival craft in the Canadian North West Territories.

 

[CLEM]

I'll be checking that out.

It’s a great great piece of story telling, adventure, beautifully told and shot. I’d love to see it on a big screen. From memory i think it was shot on 70mm, so it’d be epic at the cinema I’am sure. It’s been a favourite of mine for many years. And really you just can’t go wrong with Kurosawa at the helm, probably my favourite director.

 

[demented dale]

Am watching the movie Prey, part of the Predator franchise. Whatever else you may or may not enjoy about it, it shows some bushcraft skills, particularly of a native American variety. Anyway, I enjoyed it.
Question is, are there other films - not documentaries - that highlight or use bushcraft skills. Ideally a movie that could be shown to scouts.
Recommendations welcome, thanks.

Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

 

[Tengu]

Quest for Fire?

 

[TeeDee]

Anthony Hopkins " The Edge " iirc..

" The long way home " ?? Colin Farrell.

 

[MikeLA]

Jeremiah Johnson, one of my favourites

Slated or not I liked the hunted film as well

 

[TeeDee]

I did watch 'Tracker' the other day with Ray Winstone mumbling his way through pretending to be a Boer.

I couldn't discern any actual tracking sign being shown or seen however.

 

[Gill]

Far north with sean bean

 

[slaine_23]

Thanks for some great suggestions folks, have a lot of research to do, please keep them coming!

 

[JonathanD]

Into The Wild. Great film. Epic soundtrack.

Does First Blood count?

 

[Jared]

Alone in the Wilderness. Dick Proenneke's documentaries. Though might be hard to track down, it was on YouTube at one point.

Into The Wild. Great film. Epic soundtrack.

I remember during 2020, they lifted the bus out with a chinook, as it was attracting too many people. And oddly announced they returned McCandless's belongings to his family.

 

[JonathanD]

Alone in the Wilderness. Dick Proenneke's documentaries. Though might be hard to track down, it was on YouTube at one point.


I remember during 2020, they lifted the bus out with a chinook, as it was attracting too many people. And oddly announced they returned McCandless's belongings to his family.

Loads of people were making a pilgrimage to that bus. It got out of hand. But now it’s preserved somewhere. Can’t remember where though.

 

[FerlasDave]

Loads of people were making a pilgrimage to that bus. It got out of hand. But now it’s preserved somewhere. Can’t remember where though.

I think a few people lost their lives on the pilgrimage too. A shame but understandable really.

 

[slaine_23]

Into The Wild. Great film. Epic soundtrack.

Does First Blood count?

Am aware of the story but not watched the film.

First blood was good, the book also, but I doubt its biggest contribution to bushcraft was the Rambo knife?

 

[TeeDee]

Am aware of the story but not watched the film.

First blood was good, the book also, but I doubt its biggest contribution to bushcraft was the Rambo knife?

It got me hooked. I remember seeing the spear trap and thinking " How did that work?? " - the whole run away to the mountains , procure and survive definitely was a seed moment.