For those who want to be fellow philosopher kings like the children in "Captain Fantastic," here's a list of all of the books, articles, and music they studied in the movie.

Director Matt Ross' dramedy Captain Fantastic is an interesting tale about a recently widowed father raising his children in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest in hopes of creating a paradise rich of physical strength and mental fortitude. To put it more plainly, Ben Cash, played by Viggo Mortensen, has his six excellently named kids scale mountains and read Dostoevsky and loads and loads of Chomsky.

If you've ever seen the film and left thinking that family had a reading list that was absolutely to die for, you're in luck. L.A. based filmmaker H. Nelson Tracey of Hint of Film has put together a video essay that lists the many books, essays, articles, subjects, and music mentioned in the film. Enjoy!

The message Captain Fantastic tries to communicate about intellectualism and philosophy is quite complex. On one hand, the Cash family seems ahead of the intellectual curve in many ways compared to typical U.S. families. However, as the story begins to unfold, and as they're exposed to live beyond the wilderness, we see that they are equally crippled in social settings. The children, though brilliant and compassionate human beings, are sheltered from life outside of their cozy wooded nook, perhaps even unprepared for an adulthood that they may choose to experience beyond it.

Obviously this reading list isn't going to be up every intellectual's alley (some of the messages conveyed in the film deviate greatly from my own personal philosophy), but if you're curious, Tracey has made a convenient list of all of the materials mentioned in the film.