Films and TV shows that feel like Ain't No Grave by Johnny Cash

A dying man's defiant gospel declaration that death cannot hold him, sung with a cracked, weathered voice and a relentless stomping beat toward resurrection.

1. Walk the Line (2005): The Johnny Cash story itself, from the hard-living faith struggles to redemption.
2. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000): Depression-era South soaked in gospel, baptism and old-time Americana music.
3. True Grit (2010): The Coens' biblical, hymn-laced frontier revenge tale that shares the song's stern, weathered spirit.
4. No Country for Old Men (2007): A meditation on mortality and fate across a bleak, dusty American landscape.
5. The Night of the Hunter (1955): Southern gothic with hymns, preachers and good versus evil.
6. Justified (2010): Kentucky hollers, outlaw faith and sinners wrestling with redemption.
7. True Detective (2014): Southern gothic dread and meditations on death, sin and what comes after.
8. Supernatural (2005): Its heroes keep defying death and the grave, with open roads and rock-meets-folk soul.