Moving image genre-form guide online, May 1, 2007: (survival: Fictional work usually set in a desert, island, polar, or other harsh, barren locale, in which an individual or group must struggle for their lives against the forces of nature; related term: disaster)

Lopez, D. Films by genre, 1993: p. 326 (Survival picture: the survival film places man or woman in a harsh environment and challenges him/her to survive against nature and sometimes against their own kind)

Films that feature individuals or groups struggling for their lives in a harsh setting. For films that feature a man-made or natural calamity that places people in imminent danger see Disaster films.

Note under Disaster films