Movies: Wilderness

A group of people go on a picnic in the mountains. Longing for some love and understanding, they try to get close to one another, but the barriers are insurmountable. Failing to pull through their nutshells of solitude, they get back to the city, the...

Named after the Shoshonean word for "Earth", this is the third and final part of Benning's "California Trilogy" and his approach to the Californian wilderness in 35 static scenes....

Svenja and her 16-year-old daughter Kira have traveled the world a lot. Svenja is a hotel manager and is currently bringing an aging hotel in Australia back into shape. But her biggest challenge is her daughter, who has switched to complete refusal a...

Is wilderness more valuable than money? It depends on who you ask. Loon is a through hiking naturalist who understands what’s truly valuable in life. At 80 years old with more than 2,000 acres of wilderness to his name, he must decide what to do with...

A mountain man known as White-Water Sam survives the Rocky Mountains with no one for company besides his Siberian Husky....

Dick Proenneke's simple, yet profound account of his 30 year adventure in the remote Alaska wilderness continues in this sequel to "Alone in the Wilderness". Watch through his eyes as he continues to document with his 16mm wind-up Bolex camera, captu...

Country Western star Stuart Hamblen tell the story of Old Tom, his Alaskan hunting and fishing companions, whose pretty granddaughter Heidi joins him for a summer of camping in the great Alaskan wilderness. As they care for a herd of horses, they enj...

Recorded by pioneers as far back as 1805, the Tasmanian tiger has become an intensely mystifying Australian icon, whose entire existence has become the stuff of both fable and legend. This program investigates a chequered past and puts the speculati...

Imagine one of the most remote wildernesses in the world. Granddaughter Masha and Vladimir, the protagonists of this story from Central Siberia try the impossible to keep their nomadic traditions alive....

Dramatizes the plight of a young adventure seeker whose canoe is capsized by a wall of water during a flood. Shows community flood preparations, pointing out that a flood's predictability usually allows ample warning time to save lives. Designed to s...

Four friends are fatefully thrown into a veritable hell in this ambient and sometimes truly poetic Swedish genre drama....

Daniel and his friends have troubles with Indians on their way to Kentucky....

Global warming in context. What the climate of the past tells us about the climate of the future....

A man raises four wolf pups, hoping to release them back into the wild....

Produced by the US Air Force as part of their Mountain and Desert survival series, this companion piece covers survival situations one may face in the mountains as it primarily follows a pilot who fights to survive after a crash landing without his k...

A man who's been stuck in a dead-end job finally gets an opportunity to be happy....

Graham Bell and Ed Leigh journey southwards through the frozen province of British Columbia, Canada, towards the home of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. En route, they travel through remote communities cut off from civilisation through the winter, lea...

Living on the fringe of mainstream society, one man ventures deep into the northern forest each winter to answer the call of the outdoors. For a decade, Clément has followed the same ritual: travelling to the middle of nowhere on the hunt for peace, ...

The Tsangaan people have lived ‘in the middle of nowhere’ since ancient times. Now, only one person remains to represent the entire nation. Word of the last Tsangaan reaches a young man in Tartu, who decides to venture into the unknown wilderness to ...

The Great Black Swamp was a wetland in northwest Ohio and extreme northeast Indiana that existed from the end of the Wisconsin glaciation period until the late 19th century. The Story of the Great Black Swamp is a folklife documentary that investigat...