Richard Proenneke, an American woodsman who filmed his life an survival in the Alaskan wilderness.
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The title refers to the host of the show, Canadian filmmaker and survival expert Les Stroud, who used survival skills and knowledge to survive alone for up to ten days (seven days during the first three seasons and ten days during seasons four and five), in remote locales where he brings with him little or no food, water, or equipment.
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Happy People: A Year in the Taiga, a documentary made by Werner Herzog and Dmitry Vasyukov about subsistence hunters in the Russian boreal forest.
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On July 16, 2007, Stroud and a support crew of four in the nearby safety camp were cited by the United States National Park Service for commercial videotaping without a permit at Taroka Arm, a seldom-visited area at Kenai Fjords National Park in Alaska.
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Man vs. Wild, a similarly themed Discovery Channel series hosted by Bear Grylls.
Survivalist Les Stroud filmed the sixteenth episode ("South Pacific") of his show Survivorman on the island.
In 2012 a television episode of Survivorman Ten Days (Les Stroud) was filmed on Tiburón Island.