Films and TV shows that feel like Wayfaring Stranger by Johnny Cash

A frail, unflinching meditation on mortality: a weary pilgrim passing through a hard world, trusting that rest and reunion wait on the other side of the Jordan.

1. True Grit (2010): The Coens' frontier hymn-soaked journey through a harsh land carries the same grave, spiritual weight.
2. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000): Depression-era roads, baptism and old American spirituals sit in the same traditional musical world.
3. Walk the Line (2005): The Johnny Cash story itself, with the faith, sin and redemption behind that voice.
4. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007): A slow, elegiac western about mortality and lonely wandering.
5. No Country for Old Men (2007): Bleak, weary reflection on a changing world and the approach of death.
6. Deadwood (2004): A rough frontier where people seek meaning and mercy amid mud and mortality.
7. Unforgiven (1992): An aging man weighed down by his past travels toward a reckoning.
8. Nebraska (2013): A dying old man's stubborn pilgrimage across the heartland, in stark black and white.