What Are Your Best Favorite Survival Movies Or TV Series?

The list of ‘best survival movies’ (or TV series) results are in – although go ahead and keep adding your own favorites because I will occasionally update this post to re-adjust the popularity list.
Choosing the single best survival movie is certainly a subjective and individual choice, so instead lets list your favorite survival movies (as in more than one) to come up with a cross-section of movies (and TV shows/ series) which you consider to be worthy of the genre.
These might include plots of a post-apocalyptic, Armageddon or doomsday event, maybe wilderness survival or a natural or man-made disaster, a war plot, or perhaps a documentary or recounting of an actual ‘survival’ event, etc..
There are lots of movies (and a fair number of past and present TV series) which one might consider to be within a survival genre. Lets hear what your favorites might be…


Having received almost 200 votes for best survival movie (or TV show), I’ve listed them in order of popularity. Each section is alphabetized.
For those who find this post at a later date than this update, go ahead and continue to comment with your own favorites…
 

Best Survival Movies

(and TV shows)
 

#1

Jericho (TV, 2006+)
 

#2

The Road (2009)
 

#3

The Walking Dead (TV, 2010+)
 

#4

Red Dawn (1984)
The Book Of Eli (2010)
 

#5

The Day After (1983)
The Edge (1997)
 

#6

Survivors (TV, 2008+)
 

#7

Alaska The Last Frontier (TV, 2011+)
Alive (1993)
American Blackout (2013)
Cast Away (2000)
Dual Survival (TV, 2010+)
I Am Legend (2007)
Panic In Year Zero (1962)
Revolution (TV, 2012+)
Survivorman (TV, 2004+)
 

#8

28 Days Later (2002)
All Is Lost (2013)
Contagion (2011)
Ultimate Survival Alaska (TV, 2013+)
Lone Survivor (2013)
Mountain Men (TV, 2012+)
On The Beach (1959)
Survivor (TV, 2000+)
The Stand (1994)
World War Z (2013)
Yukon Men (TV, 2012+)
 

#9

2012 (2009)
10,000 BC (TV, 2008+)
28 Weeks Later (2007)
30 Days Of Night (2007)
A Boy And His Dog (1975)
After The Dark (2013)
The Day of the Triffids (1963)
Deliverance (1972)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Dude You’re Screwed (TV, 2013+)
Escape From LA (1996)
First Blood (1982)
Fortress (1985)
Gilligan’s Island (TV, 1964)
Goodbye World (2013)
How I Live Now (2013)
Idiocracy (2006)
Life Below Zero (TV, 2013)
Little House On The Prairie (TV, 1974)
Logans Run (1977)
Lord Of The Flies (1963)
Lost (TV, 2004+)
Mad Max (1979)
My Side Of The Mountain (1969)
Night Of The Comet (1984)
No Blade Of Grass (1970)
Out Of The Ashes (TV, 2003+)
Remnants (2013)
Shackleton (2002)
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
The Colony (TV, 2013+)
The Day (2011)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
The Diary Of Anne Frank (1959)
The Divide (2011)
The Grey (2011)
The Mountain Men (1980)
The Omega Man (1971)
The Pianist (2002)
The Purge Anarchy (2014)
The Ultimate Warrior (1975)
They Live (1988)
Threads (1984)
Tomorrow When The War Began (2010)
Man vs. Wild – Ultimate Survival (TV, 2006+)
Vikings (TV, 2013+)
Z Nation (2014)
The Postman (1997)

Note: A good website to find information about movies or TV shows is imdb.com