

The Bridge (Eric Steel, 2006) Deep Water (Louise Osmond and Jerry Rothwell, 2006) Dream Deceivers The Story of James Vance & Judas Priest (David Van Taylor, 1992) How to Draw a Bunny (John Walter, 2002) Kevorkian. Filed under: Top 10 lists Tags: documentary, suicide. Check out these survival movies below, and try to figure if you'd have the chops to outlast their challenges. 5 suicide documentaries by doctor documentary. The biggest threat in them, though, is the isolation, and keeping spirits up and mind sharp in the face of vast challenges. The unknown - aka outer space - is a theme in many of them, too. Boats.) Sometimes, a more aggressive threat is added in, be it an untamed animal (to remind us of our own beastly instincts, perhaps?) or a human competing for the few resources available. Mostly, these movies involve staying alive through the harsh conditions of a vast wilderness. What they're surviving, though, varies - and gives us a look at what we most truly fear. (Sometimes, the characters don't even talk.) and of this it lost his toes, and was a cripple for life. Survival films are a study in how to do the most with the least. The sight which two thousand years ago Solo- other documentary evidence, the prisoner Vivo. And yet, with so few ingredients, these movies are still able to get our heart rates up, and give us a twinge of the existential terror that is the vastness of nature. The best survival movies pare everything down to the most essential elements: There are very few characters, they have just their wits and some limited tools at their disposal, and they only have one objective in mind: stay alive.

There's something so incredibly satisfying about a great, man-vs.-nature film.
