Follow the River

1995

English

♡ 4

48%

Adventure

based on novel or book

Drama

escape

husband wife relationship

kidnapping

settler

wilderness

Martin Davidson Director

Renée O'Connor as Bettie Draper

Ellen Burstyn as Gretel

Tony Amendola as LaPlante

Tim Guinee as Will

Mary Ingles is pregnant when she and her two sons are captured from their homestead in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains by Shawnee Indians. Her husband, Will, narrowly escapes death during the attack. Impressed by her grace under the pressure of captivity, Wildcat, the Shawnee chief, confers special privileges on Mary and her children, eventually proposing that Mary become his mate. Surprised by her attraction to the handsome brave, Mary nonetheless opts to remain faithful to Will and engineers a plan for her escape. Separated from her children, Mary joins another female settler, and together they embark on a harrowing homeward trek. Her odyssey comes full circle more than a decade later when she is finally reunited with her long-lost children.

Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling

2009

English

♡ 2

12%

Venturing into the woods causes nothing but trouble and hilarity for three misguided males in this straight to video spin-off of 2004's "Without A Paddle".

TimeScapes

2012

English

7.6

♡ 9

77%

Stunning slow-motion and timelapse cinematography of the landscapes, people and wildlife of the American South West.

Deadfall Trail

2009

English

4.0

♡ 8

34%

Roze Director

Rosalie Michaels as John's Wife

Katrina Ryan as Mother Earth

Richard Anderson as Search Party Member

Aaron Neal Trout as Search Party Member

John, Julian and Paul enter the Kaibab National Forest for a three-week survival trip and peyote vision quest. The only items they take with them are a knife, a bottle of water and a garbage bag each. A week into their journey a disastrous turn of events changes everything and the men are forced to ultimately confront the darkest corners of their morality and mortality. Battling the elements and each other, the quest becomes to make it out of the forest alive.

Lost Wilderness

2015

English

4.0

♡ 38

50%

Garnet Campbell Director

Connor Beardmore as Dom

Matteo Stefan as Jase

Artine Brown as Kyle

Garnet Campbell as Ranger Simpson

Four would-be siblings on an outdoor vacation are encouraged to bond by their parents. The four adventurers journey out of bounds into the wild on their ATV's in search of a family relic. They soon find themselves lost in the woods and ill equipped to deal with not only the rugged terrain but each other. This is a story of hope and overcoming, full of humor and fun. Its a coming of age tale not only for kids but for parents as well.

Bear

2010

English

2.9

♡ 6

31%

Roel Reiné Director

Katie Lowes as Christine

Bill Rampley as Football Coach

Brendan Michael Coughlin as Nick

Patrick Scott Lewis as Sam

Two young couples are driving through a remote forest when their car breaks down. When a run-in with a curious grizzly bear ends up with the bear being shot to death, the bear's mate arrives on the scene and vengefully attacks their van. The couples are trapped inside the disabled car and must come up with clever ways to survive. As they battle the surprisingly intelligent creature, and contemplate their uncertain fate, secrets begin to emerge that threaten to tear the group apart before the bear does.

Bullitt County

2018

English

4.7

♡ 8

46%

David McCracken Director

David Riedford as Bar Bro #2

Mike C. Nelson as Gordie

Richard Riehle as The Mr.

Dorothy Lyman as The Mrs.

An action/thriller set in 1977 about four friends who reunite for a bachelor party to hunt for buried Prohibition money on Kentucky's Bluegrass Bourbon Trail, only to become ripped apart by greed, corruption, and murder.

Numb

2015

English

5.5

♡ 14

56%

Jason R. Goode Director

Jody Thompson as Dawn - Teaser Trailer

Veena Sood as Dr. Reese

Colin Cunningham as Loner

Jamie Bamber as Will

Husband and wife, Will and Dawn, are in financial crisis after learning the job Will was counting on to salvage their financial future has disappeared in the midst of a market collapse. They set out to drive home on the winter highway back to their city, and in a moment of altruism, pick up siblings Lee and Cheryl, a pair of hitchhikers on their way to start a new life. In the midst of the night they nearly collide with an old man wandering on the snowy highway, hyperthermic and horrifically frostbitten. While searching for his ID they discover a wad of cash, a hand drawn map with GPS coordinates, and a single gold coin inside his coat. Will and Dawn reluctantly go along with Lee’s plan to report him to the police as a John Doe and pocket the money. In an attempt to save their financial struggles, all four venture off into the snowy wilderness in search of the buried gold.

The Living Desert

1953

English

7.3

♡ 11

74%

James Algar Director

Winston Hibler as Narrator

Although first glance reveals little more than stones and sand, the desert is alive. Witness moving rocks, spitting mud pots, gorgeous flowers and the never-ending battle for survival between desert creatures of every shape, size and description.

Breaking Barbi

2019

English

2.6

♡ 22

95%

Edward G. Negron Director

Jed Rowen as Agent Ralph Mahoney

Valerie Perez as Agent Vicky

Vera VanGuard as Barbi Brennan

Amy Johnston as Jessica

A Tinder date gone astray leaves famous fitness selfie queen, Barbi, lost in the wilderness trying to survive despite Homeland Security, alien death rays and zero cell service.

Bone Breaker

2020

English

2.7

♡ 7

Nicholas Winter Director

Rachel Bright as Emily

Jack Parr as Jason

Mike Maley as Jason

Lucy Aarden as Ruby

A group of friends looking for an extreme weekend, get more than they bargain for when they mistakenly cross the land of the infamous Bone Breaker. What should have been a fun weekend has now turned into a fight for survival.

Those Calloways

1965

English

6.5

♡ 5

52%

Norman Tokar Director

Brian Keith as Cam Calloway

Vera Miles as Lydia

John Davis Chandler as Ollie Gibbons

Tom Skerritt as Whit Turner

Story of Cam Calloway and his family, who live in a densely wooded area in New England. Cam dreams of building a sanctuary for the geese that fly over the area each year, and he tries several schemes to buy a nearby lake for this santuary. He is thwarted at every attempt, it seems; he and his son try to get enough furs from their trapping venture to get the money, but the bottom falls out of the fur market. He uses the little money they get for a down payment on the lake, thereby losing their house when he can't make the mortgage payment. They move to the lake, where their friends help them build a cabin. A salesman stops in town, and tries to get the people to sell their land for a tourist venture; Cam is outraged at his tactics and takes desperate measures after he himself is tricked.

Wild America

1997

English

6.4

♡ 16

30%

William Dear Director

Frances Fisher as Agnes

Danny Glover as Bigfoot the Mountain Man

Devon Sawa as Mark

Don Stroud as Stango

Three brothers - Marshall, Marty and Mark dream of becoming naturalists and portraying animal life of America. One summer their dream comes true, they travel through America, filming alligators, bears and moose.

Territorial Behavior

2015

English

3.5

♡ 3

Peter Bergin Director

Bridget O'Connor as Amber Vance

Ronan Murphy as Bailey Rhodes

Corey Macri as Sheriff Marvin Krantz

Aaron Lee Reed as Todd Sommerman

A survival specialist encounters poachers and something malevolent while backpacking in the remote wilderness of Montana.

Desert Saints

2002

English

6.0

♡ 16

33%

Richard Greenberg Director

Bill Sage as Agent Davis

Kiefer Sutherland as Arthur Banks

Rachel Ticotin as Dora

Shawn Woods as Larson

Banks is a hit man, the best, usually working for Latin American drug cartels. He picks up solitary women, uses them briefly for a job, then kills them. He's in the Southwest, headed toward Mexico, when he picks up Bennie, a woman leaving an abusive marriage, going to Paradise, Arizona. The film follows three tracks: Banks's slow recruitment of Bennie, the set-up for the hit at a swank resort in Mexico, and the FBI's close pursuit of Banks, whom they want alive in hopes he'll rat out his bosses. Bennie may not be who she seems, and there may be a chink in Banks's tough-guy armor. Guns, money, and a chance at Paradise.

Return to the Wild: The Chris McCandless Story

2014

English

6.7

♡ 7

Jeanmarie Condon Director

Sean Penn as Self

Twenty years ago, a young American hiker named Chris McCandless, the accomplished son of successful middle class parents, was found dead in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness and became the subject of the best-selling book and movie “Into the Wild.” Now, PBS retraces Chris McCandless’ steps to try to piece together why he severed all ties with his past, burnt or gave away all his money, changed his name and headed into the Denali Wilderness. McCandless' own letters, released for the first time, as well as new and surprising interviews, probe the mystery that still lies at the heart of a story that has become part of the American literary canon and compels so many to this day.

Desert Flower

2009

English

7.3

♡ 8

50%

72%

Action

africa

based on a true story

based on novel or book

Sherry Hormann Director

Anthony Mackie as Harold Jackson

Nigel Betts as Home Office Detective

Sally Hawkins as Marilyn

Timothy Spall as Terry Donaldson

The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation.

Hunter's Creed

2020

English

2.8

86%

Justin Jackola Director

Jennifer Jelsema as Doctor

James Errico as Paul

Mickey O'Sullivan as Russell

Duane 'Dog' Chapman as Self

After losing his wife, a man reunites with his church buddies to film the hunting show they’ve always wanted to make together. Before long, he senses a dark presence in the woods eventually bringing him face to face with death and his faith.

Sweetgrass

2009

English

6.8

♡ 1

98%

Lucien Castaing-Taylor Director

An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture, revealing a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.

Survive the Hollow Shoals

2018

English

5.2

♡ 6

Jonathon Klimek Director

Brittany Baise Morrison as Self

Ashley Mulkey as Self

Brent McGhee as Zack Weiland

Zach Weiland is a survival enthusiast who embarks on a 60 day survival challenge in the Hollow Shoals of Georgia. But throughout the challenge, Zach is stalked and harassed by an evil entity that haunts the Shoals.

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Those Calloways

Wild America

Territorial Behavior

Desert Saints

Return to the Wild: The Chris McCandless Story

Desert Flower

Hunter's Creed

Sweetgrass

Survive the Hollow Shoals