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First one is Alone in the Wilderness

A documentary telling the story of Dick Proenneke who, in the late 1960s, built his own cabin in the wilderness at the base of the Aleutian Peninsula, in what is now Lake Clark National Park. Using color footage he shot himself, Proenneke traces how he came to this remote area, selected a homestead site and built his log cabin completely by himself. The documentary covers his first year in-country, showing his day-to-day activities and the passing of the seasons as he sought to scratch out a living alone in the wilderness. Filmed mostly on a stationary 16mm camera.

This was just one mans story but watching how he did what he did and his explanations of why he prepped an area a certain way or why he build something gives a lot of educational in site into what one may need for living in hard times where power or water may not be readily available.

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The next video I found educational in a where to begin sort of way was

Off the Grid with Les Stroud.

A documentary with Les Stroud and Sue Jamison, and their two young children, sharing their experience leaving a world of electricity bills and water problems and going 'off the grid' as they move to acreage in Northern Ontario, Canada. Les Stroud wanted to show first hand that you don't need to be a back-to-the-lander (his word), an electrical engineer, or rich to escape the fear of loss of central electricity and water. It is not in depth and yes they had more money available to many of us who want to get off the grid, but it does give ideas of what to look for in land, existing buildings on the land, the problems with getting water, problems with refurbishing old buildings, yellow jackets, ect...