As I think about it, one of my favorite survival movies is the old 1960ish cold-war, post-nuke, survival thriller: Panic In The Year Zero. As Ray Milland drove his vacationing family homeward towards Los Angeles, they saw the telltale mushroom cloud overhanging what used to be LA. The movie explored the classic themes of evacuation (with a camping trailer in tow behind the family sedan), emergency acquisition of tools & supplies, relocating in the boondocks, dealing with various hostiles and neo-savages, survival medicine, and surviving in TEOTWAWKI.

An Honorable Mention also goes to the newly educated character played by Linda Hamilton at the end of The Terminator as she gassed up her Jeep fleeing into Mexico. Her newly acquired Ruger Security Six nestled in her console. The former nightclub waitress was on the road to save mankind from the future war of annihilation by the cyborgs.

John