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.

Battle of the Brave

2004

French

5.3

♡ 8

37%

Jean Beaudin Director

Gérard Depardieu as Father Thomas Blondeau

Jason Isaacs as Général James Wolfe

Michael Maloney as Gouverneur James Murray

Tim Roth as William Pitt

In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance between a peasant woman and a trapper unfurls

The Scalphunters

1968

English

6.7

♡ 7

70%

Sydney Pollack Director

Paul Picerni as Frank

Telly Savalas as Jim Howie

Ossie Davis as Joseph Lee

Jack Williams as Scalphunter

Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them.

Dersu Uzala

1975

Russian

8.2

♡ 37

73%

Akira Kurosawa Director

Yuriy Solomin as Arsenev

Aleksandr Pyatkov as Olenev

Daniil Netrebin as Politseyskiy

Vladimir Prikhodko as Russkiy soldat

A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.

Eagle's Wing

1979

English

5.9

♡ 3

32%

Anthony Harvey Director

Harvey Keitel as Henry

Jorge Luke as Red Sky

Claudio Brook as Sanchez

John Castle as The Priest

Two men, an aging Native American and a ne'er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle's Wing in antebellum Mexico, meeting marauded stagecoach travelers and garrisoned Mexicans along the way.

Storm Over Asia

1928

Russian

6.9

♡ 8

75%

Vsevolod Pudovkin Director

I. Inkizhinov as Bair's Father

Anel Sudakevich as Commandant's blonde daughter

Boris Barnet as English soldier, pipe smoker

Bilinskaya as The Commandant's Wife

In 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a European capitalist fur trader. Ostracized from the trading post, he escapes to the hills after brawling with the trader who cheated him. In 1920 he becomes a Soviet partisan, and helps the partisans fight for the Soviets against the occupying British army. However he is captured by the British when they try to requisition cattle from the herdsmen at the same time as the commandant meets with a reincarnated Grand Lama. After the trapper is shot, the army discovers an amulet that suggests he is a direct descendant of Genghis Khan. They find him still alive, so the army restores his health and plans to use him as the head of a puppet regime. The trapper is thus thrust into prominence as he is placed in charge of the puppet government. By the end, however, the "puppet" turns against his masters in an outburst of fury.

Man in the Wilderness

1971

English

6.8

♡ 12

71%

Action

Adventure

based on a true story

Richard C. Sarafian Director

John Huston as Captain Henry

Dennis Waterman as Lowrie

Bryan Marshall as Potts

Richard Harris as Zachary Bass

In the early 1800s, a group of fur trappers and Indian traders are returning with their goods to civilization and are making a desperate attempt to beat the oncoming winter. When guide Zachary Bass is injured in a bear attack, they decide he's a goner and leave him behind to die. When he recovers instead, he swears revenge on them and tracks them and their paranoiac expedition leader down.

The Last Trapper

2004

French

7.0

♡ 1

75%

Nicolas Vanier Director

Christopher Lewis as Self

Roy Ness as Self

Kaori Torigai as Self

Alain Lemaire as Self

Norman is not just an admirer of nature, he's a part of it. He survives the harshness of the climate and the wildlife by coexisting with it. With his wife Nebraska, they live almost entirely off the land, making money by selling their furs.

Many Rivers to Cross

1955

English

6.2

♡ 3

45%

Roy Rowland Director

Rosemary DeCamp as Lucy Hamilton

Eleanor Parker as Mary Stuart Cherne

Darryl Hickman as Miles Henderson

Louis Jean Heydt as Noah Crawford

Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker star as a Kentucky backwoodsman and the woman who will NOT let anything interfere with her plans to marry him in this humorous romantic adventure through the American Frontier of 1798.

First Cow

2019

English

♡ 30

96%

65%

4:3

Action

based on novel or book

Kelly Reichardt Director

Toby Jones as Chief Factor

John Magaro as Cookie Figowitz

Patrick D. Green as Russian Trapper

Gary Farmer as Totillicum

In the 1820s, a taciturn loner and skilled cook travels west to Oregon Territory, where he meets a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two team up on a dangerous scheme to steal milk from the wealthy landowner’s prized Jersey cow – the first, and only, in the territory.

Hunter Hunter

2020

English

6.4

♡ 37

94%

husband wife relationship

Shawn Linden Director

Camille Sullivan as Anne

Erik Athavale as Greg

Nick Stahl as Lou

Devon Sawa as Mersault

A fur trapper leaves his wife and daughter behind to kill a rogue wolf in the remote wilderness, but they soon become increasingly worried when their peaceful existence is disrupted.

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