Films and TV shows that feel like Dark Was The Night - Cold Was The Ground by Blind Willie Johnson

A wordless, lonely moan over slide guitar that sounds like prayer in the dark, suffering and vast empty distance, with a faint thread of faith.

1. Paris, Texas (1984): Ry Cooder's slide guitar over a wandering man in the desolate Texas landscape carries the same lonely, wordless ache.
2. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000): Depression-era South where gospel and blues are the spiritual music of the land.
3. Cosmos (2014): The Voyager Golden Record's story, with the song's place among humanity's messages to the stars.
4. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007): A slow, hushed, mournful American frontier with a sense of fate and doom.
5. True Detective (2014): Southern gothic, with fractured faith, bleak landscapes and a brooding blues mood.
6. Southern Comfort (1981): Lost in the cold, hostile Louisiana swamp, with dread and a haunting slide-guitar score by Ry Cooder.
7. The Night of the Hunter (1955): Hymns and menace in Depression-era America, with children fleeing through the dark.
8. Sound of Metal (2020): Isolation and a search for stillness in silence, with a spiritual weight beyond words.