10 Of The Best Survival Movies To Test Your Limits

Into the Wild tells the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who decided to live off the grid in Alaska. While it is one of the best survival movies, it also shows just how some survival movies don’t have that happy Hollywood ending. Emile Hirsch stars as McCandless, a young man who, in the early ‘90s, disillusioned by his life and lifestyle, decided to head into the wild to experience life off the grid and live off the land.

McCandless found himself in Alaska, living in an abandoned bus (The Magic Bus) in the wilds near Healy, Alaska. He is thrilled and content with the isolation, living off the land (trying to), hunting with a .22 rifle, and entertaining himself with books and the journal he writes in. Soon, though, McCandless discovers that living off the land is not as romantic as it sounds. He makes the fatal mistake of eating a poisonous plant, spending the remaining days of his life in his Magic Bus, where hunters eventually find his body.