Alejandro G. Inarritu · 2015 · survival

Alejandro G. Inarritu's 2015 wilderness epic, drawn from Michael Punke's novel and the true ordeal of the frontiersman Hugh Glass. In 1823, guiding a fur brigade through the northern plains, Glass is savaged by a grizzly and left for dead by the men paid to bury him. Broken and alone, he sets his own bones and drags himself for weeks across the frozen country, driven by the memory of his murdered son, to the safety of Fort Kiowa. The film moved its scenery to the high mountains, but Glass's real crawl ran across the plains of present-day South Dakota. It won Leonardo DiCaprio his first Academy Award.

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   The Grand River

   In 1823 the trapper Hugh Glass, guiding a fur brigade near the forks of the Grand River, is mauled by a grizzly bear and left for dead by two men meant to bury him.

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   Thunder Butte

   Abandoned without weapons, Glass sets his shattered leg and begins to crawl, fixing on the landmark of Thunder Butte to steer himself south toward help.

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   The Cheyenne River

   Reaching the Cheyenne River, half-starved and festering, he lashes together a crude raft to carry himself the rest of the way.

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   Fort Kiowa

   He floats down to the Missouri and at last to Fort Kiowa, near present-day Chamberlain, six weeks and two hundred miles from the bear that should have killed him.