Favorite "outdoors" movies"

[poconoron]

Now that most of us will be spending more time indoors, I got to thinking about some of my favorite movies with an outdoor flavor or setting. My list of favorites (either for storyline, scenery or both) right now includes:

Dances With Wolves
Never Cry Wolf
Last of the Mohicans
Jeremiah Johnson
Deliverance
Legends of the Fall
The Bear
The Edge

Any others I should be checking out?

[southernadkhiker]

Vertical Limit-fake at alot of points in the movie... but fun to watch.
The River Wild- fegin' great.
K2- cool and very realistic.
My all-time favorite is about 2 climbers who climb an unclimbed mountain in south america but, one gets trapped in an ice cavern and finds his way to basecamp. Movie came out on pbs in 2003? Forgot the name. If anybody knows this movie let me know

[Rik]

Vertical Limit-fake at alot of points in the movie... but fun to watch.
The River Wild- fegin' great.
K2- cool and very realistic.
My all-time favorite is about 2 climbers who climb an unclimbed mountain in south america but, one gets trapped in an ice cavern and finds his way to basecamp. Movie came out on pbs in 2003? Forgot the name. If anybody knows this movie let me know

Do you mean 'Touching the Void'?

[tatersprout]

How about "Up The Creek"? LOL, kinda campy, but fun!

[jpm8920]

Guys, how can you forget about "The Great Outdoors"? Hysterical movie!

[what'sinaname]

If you're looking for something "different", rent The Big Blue (Le grand bleu). It's a French flick that did really well in Europe. The story line is more of a love story, quite dramatic. The scenery is amazing.

[southernadkhiker]

Yes that was the movie title

[Riosacandaga]

"Good 2 the Last Drop"
"Token of my Extreme"
Kayaking flics BUT it's filmed entirely outdoors !

[kurtteej]

The Edge
Last of the Mohicans

[Boreal Chickadee]

The soundtrack to "Last of the Mohicans" is a favorite of mine! Great music.

[soco7tyx7]

"Without a Paddle"!

[poconoron]

I forgot to mention the 3 Lord of the Ringd movies- amazing scenery!
And I agree- Last of Mohicans is great soundtrack as well as terrific outdoors scenery- I believe it was filmed in North Carolina.

[redhawk]

My favorites........

1. 'Jeremiah Johnson' ("Can you skin Griz, Pilgrim?")
A docudrama about the Mountain man who became known as "Liver Eating Johnson"

2. 'Centennial': Not a movie but a miniseries covering several generations of settling the west.

3. Wind Walker: The best movie for an accurate depiction of Indian life, custom and language (Northern Cheyenne)

4. 'Man In the Wilderness.' Richard Harris portrays Zach Bass, A hunter for a party who is mauled by a grizzly and left for dead. One of the party who abandoned him was a kid still wet behind the ears named Jim Bridger. The movie doesnt tell you that.

5. 'The Far Horizons' 1955: Fred MacMurray and Charlton Heston as Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. For the times it did a good job portraying the Journey of Discovery. Donna Reed playing Sacagawea is a little chintzy. This picture piqued my interest in The Corps of Discovery when I was 13 years old.

6. 'The Last of the Mohegans': Good account of the French and Indian War. What I particularly liked was that Magua the "villain" Indian explains that he want to kill the English because they killed his family. He is also portrayed with dignity by Wes Studi, and is cast as brave, not bloodthirsty and cowardly as many Indians were cast in movies.

7. 'Clear Cut': great movie in which Graham Greene portrays a rather psychotic Indian who kidnaps the owner of a paper mill that is lumbering Indian Land and skins him alive. But, I guess you have to be Indian to really enjoy it.

8. Ishi, last of his tribe. True story starring Graham Greene as Ishi, the last member of the now extinct Yahi tribe who is found scavenging for food long after his people have disappeared. The movie accurately depicts the murder of Indians by whites for no other reason then that they are Indian, and then the arrogance of the anthropologist professor (played by Jon Voight) who 'saves' him.

9. Ken Burns - Lewis and Clark - The Journey of the Corps or Discovery - PBS Documentary

10 The Living Edens: Denali - PBS Documentary

11. The Living Edens: Yellowstone - PBS Documentary

12. Lewis and Clark: Great Journey West: National Geographic Documentary

13. the Journey of Sacagawea: PBS Documentary

14. Nature - Bears: Showdown at Grizzly River & Walking with giants: Grizzlies of Siberia: Documentary

Plus I have about 30 more documentaries I could list.

[DuctTape]

I very much enjoyed "A River Runs Through it", not for the scenery but for the philosophy.

[SLJames]

The Edge is my all time favorite.

Last of the Mohicans is a beautiful movie.

Grizzly Man, for its amazing footage, not Tim Treadwell and his "nuttier than a payday bar ranting".