Bushcrafty films!

[JohnC]

Anyone recall jim kirk building a gun out of "natural" materials on star trek?
would a series like c4 time team count?

 

[Yohny]

Another bushcrafty film & about my favourite film of all time is Jeremiah Johnson with Robert Redford as the title character. The story, based on real life events, of a mountain man in the rockies & his one man war against the Crow (Native American people, not the bird). Well worth checking out. It plays quite regularly on ITV, usually around midnight mid week. Lots of wilderness skills displayed like making a hot rock bed beneath the snow, fire by flint & steel, building a cabin using the bow & drill to make holes. Very inspiring!

 

[CLEM]

Alone in the Wilderness

the book and the DVD is cool
cheers
Abbe

Product Description:
"Alone in the Wilderness" is the story of Dick Proenneke. To live in a pristine land unchanged by man... to roam a wilderness through which few other humans have passed... to choose an idyllic site, cut trees and build a log cabin... to be a self-sufficient craftsman, making what is needed from materials available... to be not at odds with the world, but content with one's own thoughts and company... Thousands have had such dreams, but Dick Proenneke lived them. He found a place, built a cabin, and stayed to become part of the country. This video "Alone in the Wilderness" is a simple account of the day-to-day explorations and activities he carried out alone, and the constant chain of nature's events that kept him company.

Wow that sounds great Abbe,thanks for the tip off,have to get this i think.

 

[bilko]

I purchased a few films mentioned on here the other day and recieved Jeremia johnson this morning.
Wow!, i didn't know they made westerns with this level of bushcraft in them. I would say i enjoyed the film but i won't because parts made me quite sad. It was however a very good film and i'm glad i bought it. A few quid off amazon i think but then it depends who you buy it off.
If you are looking for a bushcraft film i can thoroughly reccomend this one.
I am considering getting that multi region thing for my playstation as i can't get one for my normal player just so i can watch snow walker.

 

[innocent bystander]

Amazon have made a fortune from me just on this thread alone !!

 

[Ruckus]

Alone in the Wilderness is excellent, i enjoyed The Edge and really liked Snow Walker, good thread!!

 

[nooky]

If you want a cheap multi-region DVD player then Argos sell some multi-region DVD players for about £29.99. The player we got play the region 2 (UK) and region 1 (US) dvd's ok.
Andrew.

 

[twelveboar]

I think the episode of Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere, where they spend the night out in the woods has to be a bushcraft comedy classic, the bit where Max can't see what he's doing with the hand fire drill.
A few of the old westerns are quite bushcrafty, Is it How the West Was Won, with with Jimmy Stewart as a trapper?

 

[Abbe Osram]

Just looking at a very wonderful movie called
Le Dernier Trappeur. Its a French movie about a Trapper with wonderful shots, canoeing, mushing, meeting bears, fixing a canoe etc etc.

Cheers
Abbe

 

[moko]

Nanook of the North, a true classic not to be missed. Shot in Black and White the filming and story telling is stunning. Forget your Hollywood rubbish, this is the real thing. Often used as a model by which all modern documentaries are made you will not regret buying this DVD. If you do end up hating it, you can stone me to death at this summers moot.....

moko

 

[Spacemonkey]

just dug this up again to say that 'Death hunt' (kind of Deathwish oop north..) was on Friday night, and not bad. The Edge is on next Friday night on ITV4 i think.

 

[sandbender]

Kukushka directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin

Beautifully filmed movie, not 'bushcrafty' in the sense of some of the other recommendations listed here, however many Saami craft items are to be seen throughout, I was thoroughly entertained

Info and pics here...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308476/

 

[CrakaJack]

In to the wild: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758758/

Great film about a guy who goes to Alaska, and his personal development before he goes... true story too!

 

[V8Mondo]

I have this movie for sale.. if anyone is interested?

£12 posted to UK. Other countries at cost of postage!


Great movie with bushcraft/survival theme...as described on this thread.

Movie plays in English with subtitles for other languages. You just need to turn off the subtitles after selecting to play in Norwegian for instance.

As new...no scratches or other issues.

First person on thread to say they will have it gets it - NO PM's please they will not count.

 

[Amon81]

More of a Documentary really but its great is Alone in the wilderness

Its just great and I want that life (but still be able to get online)

 

[Whittler Kev]

There's an old thread on here somewhere with a big list of these.
Have a look.

EDIT:
here you go.. i was rushing out when i posted this reply.
3 pages or replies to this one.

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/community/showthread.php?t=411

cheers

Keeps coming up as a 404

 

[Whittler Kev]

I may just order it and play it on my computer. I have a programme called anyDVD that changes the region on your DVD player without it locking out. A good programme for if you want to buy region 1 or any other region DVDs. Check out slysoft.

or you can de-region your dvd by a combination of button presses on the remote if you google for your model
try here
Remember if you try this it is at your own risk, etc but it worked for me

 

[Whittler Kev]

In to the wild: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758758/

Great film about a guy who goes to Alaska, and his personal development before he goes... true story too!

Showing on Sky Movies at the moment. Damn good film - watch out for sweet pea roots!

 

[Whittler Kev]

I've got Alone in the Wild saved to my Harddrive. It's also on the DVD I have in the swap shop

 

[Rebirth]

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/