Best Survival movies of 1961

Actors : Michael Goodliffe, Janet Munro, Leo McKern, Edward Judd,
Directors : Val Guest,

When the U.S. and Russia unwittingly test atomic bombs at the same time, it alters the nutation (axis of rotation) of the Earth.

Actors : Tamao Nakamura, Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Yûsuke Kawazu,
Directors : Masaki Kobayashi,

His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival.

Actors : Christopher Rhodes, Vincent Winter, William Sylvester, Bill Travers,
Directors : Eugène Lourié,

Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up.

Actors : Jean-Pierre Aumont, Frank Sinatra, Spencer Tracy, Kerwin Mathews,
Directors : Mervyn LeRoy,

A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smoldering volcano.

Actors : Hardy Krüger, Lino Ventura, Maurice Biraud, Charles Aznavour,
Directors : Denys de La Patellière,

During World War II, French Commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert.

Actors : Dolores Michaels, Audie Murphy, Alejandro Rey, Gary Crosby,
Directors : Herbert Coleman,

In 1941, after the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, American civilian Craig Benson helps organizing the Philippine guerrilla fighters, delivering supplies and evacuating stranded civilians.

Actors : Gregory Walcott, Bruce Bennett, Tony Curtis, James Franciscus,
Directors : Delbert Mann,

Tony Curtis plays an Indian (Nicknamed "Chief" by other soldiers) who fights in WWII and helps to raise the flag at Iwo Jima.

Actors : Émile Genest, Jean Coutu, Robert Rivard, Uriel Luft,

The rugged Canadian wilderness is the backdrop to this story of a dog separated from his owner.

Actors : Paul Meurisse, Bernard Blier, Pierre Blanchar, Elga Andersen,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

The Marquis de Villemaur reunite stranges visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the 3rd Reich. There is an Italian fascist ; Heinrich, a German ; Matthias, a russian ; and Dromard, a blind French war hero, with a black monocle.

Actors : Henryk Hryniewicz, Andrzej Banaszewski, Beata Barszczewska, Edward Mincer,
Directors : Stanislaw Rózewicz,

Three episodes dealing with the harsh situation of children at the time of war. They stay at orphanages, wait for their parents to come back, help the soldiers, hide in the forests and do their best to survive.

Actors : Mickey Curtis, Sessue Hayakawa, Kôji Shitara, Jûzô Itami,
Directors : Tad Danielewski,

Yukio, a farm boy, and Toru, a fisherboy, live in a small Japanese village that is periodically threatened by a volcano on one side and tidal waves on the other. Yukio's younger sister ...