Overcast

Been watching season 1 of Man Vs. Wild. Looks so fun.

Cuthbert

I watched this on 4od last night:

Holocaust: Night Will Fall

Holocaust: Night Will Fall - Channel 4

Probably the most compelling documentary on this tragedy I've seen. Everyone should be made to watch this. The footage is the best (or worst) and most detailed I've ever seen, the scale of it is unreal.

Worth a watch.

Yeah seen all of these. Grylls is entertaining but not as knowledgeable as other survival experts. I love these shows. Dual Survival series 5 just started, if you're in the US you can watch it on telly, I have to wait a day or two to torrent it :p

Anything by Les Stroud (Survivorman) & Ray Mears as well.

Overcast

Yeah it's very entertaining. I'm looking for a show that is more about surviving for an extended period of time than getting out as fast as possible. I've surprisingly never checked out Survivorman but I sure will soon.

Cuthbert

Bruce Parry's series called Tribe sounds like something you'd like, he goes around all sorts of places seeing how the natives live day to day and joins their tribe, becoming one of them, places like the Amazon, Alaska, Africa... He's been all over. I know a few more but my memory has gone a bit blank as I watch a shit load of this stuff.

Can recommend a couple films too... Grizzly Man is one. Timothy Treadwell is a proper strange bastard, it's not so much based around bushcraft as say Ray Mears and the like, this guy went to live in the wild with bears, few laugh out loud moments in it where he's having a go at the camera But a gripping film all the same.

The 2007 film 'Into The Wild' is a must watch as well. I won't spoil it for you though.

Bear Grylls has got a documentary series called The Legion which you might like as well.

Overcast

Yeah I just watched Into the Wild for the first time probably less than a month ago and instantly fell in love with it. Great soundtrack too. Haven't heard of Tribe but it sounds extremely interesting.

I'll definitely check out all that stuff. It's becoming my life fuel at the moment due to my sudden obsession with all things nature. I'd probably be out there right now dancing with bears if I didn't live in a desert and I wasn't deathly afraid of bugs. Gah...

Chula Vista

Well, pretty hard to spoil a true story. I was 1/2 heartbroken for the kid and 1/2 pissed off at him for being so naive. Great, great movie though.

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