The Cynical Historian

Into the Wild | Based on a True Story (2016x11)

Air date: Mar 03, 2016

This movie about one man's quest for meaning is one of my favorite movies of all time, but that does not mean it doesn't have its own inaccuracies. ------------------------------------------------------------ more videos: previous: https://youtu.be/JRNy5W7Ocvw related: https://youtu.be/XkdcvzchXKw ------------------------------------------------------------ references: http://www.pbs.org/program/return-to-the-wild/ Carine McCandless. _The Wild Truth_. NY: HarperOne, 2014. http://www.outsideonline.com/1927741/does-wild-truth-tell-true-story-chris-mccandless http://www.tifilms.com/wild/call_debunked.htm http://www.christophermccandless.info/Ronald-Hamilton/ronald-hamilton-intothewild1.html http://www.christophermccandless.info/wayne-sheldrake/wayne-sheldrake-intothewild.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_McCandless ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=CynicalCypher88 contribute to my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CynicalHistorian LET'S CONNECT: https://www.facebook.com/cynicalcypher88 https://twitter.com/Cynical_History ------------------------------------------------------------ wiki: Into the Wild is a 2007 American biographical drama survival film written, co-produced, and directed by Sean Penn. It is an adaptation of Jon Krakauer's 1996 non-fiction book of the same name, based on the travels of Christopher McCandless across North America and his life spent in the Alaskan wilderness in the early 1990s. The film stars Emile Hirsch as McCandless, and Marcia Gay Harden and William Hurt as his parents, and features Jena Malone, Catherine Keener, Vince Vaughn, Kristen Stewart, and Hal Holbrook. The film premiered during the 2007 Rome Film Fest and later opened outside of Fairbanks, Alaska, on September 21, 2007. It was later nominated for two Golden Globes and won the award for Best Original Song: "Guarante