Need gun, hunting, Africa movie ideas for gifts for my PH in Africa

[Greywolf]

I'm putting together some DVDs as a gift to send my PH (Professional Hunter, basically a hunting guide) and his family over in Namibia. They live way out in the sticks and don't have internet, Wal-Mart, etc. and so have limited access to entertainment. My PH is a HUGE gun nut and loves action movies with guns, mercs, war, etc. Also likes anything related to hunting, Africa, etc.

So I was wondering if you all had a good list of some movies to send him and his family.

Thanks!

 

[Lewis130]

'The Ghost and the Darkness' might appeal (its about a soldier and a PH trying to kill some maneating lions).

 

[jerkface11]

Tears of the sun. Throw in an Xbox360 and a copy of Resident Evil 5.

 

[Poprivit]

PH flicks

Craig Boddington has a number of good videos. Peter Capstick likewise.

 

[db_tanker]

Wild Geese, Breaker Morant, Dogs of War, Odd Angry Shot, Attack Force Z should keep you busy gathering up for him.

 

[Mr_Rogers]

Ernest Hemingway "Green Hills of Africa".

May be difficult to find but it is, without any doubt, the best description of the relationship between a feisty client (actually Hemingway himself) and his PH.

My copy has marvelous art deco line drawings of africana that I had reproduced on etched glass for my modest private/gun-room.

Sorry, re-read your post. I suggested a book. still something I would like to receive.

 

[trickyasafox]

movies not related to Africa, but involve gun play: boondock saints, we were soldiers, blackhawk down, quick and the dead, fist full of dollars, for a few dollars more, good the bad and the ugly. . . etc

 

[TheFallGuy]

to trickyasafox- Blackhawk Down does involve Africa. I second the xbox/RE5 idea.

 

[BigGuy52]

The movie 'Zulu', made in 1964.

Story line - Set in 1879 in Natal Africa. About the heroric defense of a tiny British outpost at Rorkes Drift, againest thousands of Zulu warriors.

Megga gun battles.

 

[gbran]

Greywolf

Be sure any media or electronics you send are compatible with format and voltage standards used there.

 

[Avenger29]

Taken. Get the extended or European version. The American theater version lacks some of the finer points...

Of course, remember DVDs are region limited.

 

[akodo]

Generally, when a person is an expert in a field, they are NOT fond of Hollywood's interperation of it...

So skip "Ghost in the Darkness" "Zulu" and all the rest.

In the same manner, professionals in the field are probably going to already have a lot of the good books, like Chapstick's stuff.

I think you'd be better off getting 5-10 DVDs (watch the region code) that shows worlds he normally doesn't have access too.

I'd say
#1 Unforgiven
#2 We Were Soldiers
(westerns and US war movies!)
#3 Princess Mononoki (japanese animation with famous US and UK voice actors)
#4 October Sky (life as a coal miner's son who dreams of the stars)
#5 Apollo 13 (getting to the stars!)
#6 Whale Rider (coming of age story as a young girl bucks gender restrictions to become cheif of a Pacific Islander people who are caught between the old ways and modern ways)
#7 Mongol (story of Ghengis Khan)
#8 Austin Powers (comedy!)
#9 Shane (combo western and classic)
#10 Yojimbo -Samurai movie about a guy who rights a wrong by getting two criminal gangs to fight eachother...western version is A Fist Full of Dollars with Clint Eastwood.

Honorable mentions for my 'Diverse Movie pack"
#11 A Fist Full of Dollars - to match the above film
#12 Fargo - great comedy, very different world than what he sees every day
#13 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Steve Martin and Michael Cain comedy...ageless.
#14 Braveheart - action movie with guys in kilts and blue faces
#15 Lonesome Dove (really a miniseries, but a great western)

 

[Clipper]

Hatari!...John Wayne...