The fictional survivalist

Do you want to know what survivalists do when they're not working on preparedness? Well, in addition to all of the other things every day people do, they enjoy survivalist fiction and movies. Every time you read an article related to survivalism, just about every writer makes reference to the Mad Max movies as the quintessential survivalist movie. It's not, but it does have very obvious survivalist themes. However, no survival nut worth his salt would eat dog food, unless the dog was eating as well as its owner ;)

Movies

I am Legend

The Survivalist

Panic in the Year Zero

No Blade of Grass 

Deliverance

Dawn of the Dead

Packin' it In

The Survivors

Red Dawn

Tremors

The Postman

Mad Max

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Cast Away

Resident Evil: Apocalypse

TV

The Day After in the US 

Threads in the UK

24

Jericho

Lost

Survivors

Survivor reality TV

Books

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Earth Abides by George R. Stewart

The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

Tomorrow by Philip Wylie

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Stark by Ben Elton

Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank

Dies the Fire by S.M. Stirling

Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein

Tunnel in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein

How to be a Survivor by Robert A. Heinlein (nuclear war essay)

Lucifer's Hammer by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven 

Footfall by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven

The Postman by David Brin

Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse by James Wesley Rawles (Editor of SurvivalBlog.com)

Good News by Edward Abbey

The Survivalist is the title of a series of paperback novels by Jerry Ahern

Do you have a favourite not mentioned above? Let us know by leaving a comment.