"Pilgrimage took Annie Leibovitz to places that she could explore with no agenda. She wasn't on assignment. She chose the subjects simply because they meant something to her. The first place was Emily Dickinson's house in Amherst, Massachusetts, which Leibovitz visited with a small digital camera. A few months later, she went with her three young children to Niagara Falls. "That's when I started making lists," she says. She added the houses of Virginia...

Over a span of twenty years, 16th-century Portuguese explorer Fernao Mendes Pinto traveled the continent of Asia as a soldier, merchant, diplomat, pirate, and missionary. Adapted from his historic memoirs and featuring songs from folk musician Fausto Bordalo Dias, this newly remastered sea-faring epic was Portugal's Official Entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards. Also released as Peregrinação. Nominated for Best Film, Golden...

Spurred by his mother's death, Timothy Egan decided to take a pilgrimage and try to reconcile his own beliefs. He went on a thousand-mile journey along the Via Francigena leading to Rome. He delves into history, his own family's story, and his personal faith journey.

"James Martin, SJ, gifted storyteller, editor at large of America magazine, popular media commentator, and New York Times bestselling author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything, brings the Gospels to life in Jesus: A Pilgrimage, and invites believers and seekers alike to experience Jesus through Scripture, prayer and travel.Combining the fascinating insights of historical Jesus studies with profound spiritual insights about the Christ of faith,...

This documentary explores the Kanwar Yatra, a pilgrimage that began in a small way in the 1980s and has since exploded into an annual assembly of lakhs of mostly male pilgrims from across northern India. Taking a sociological approach, the film charts the multifaceted aspects of the pilgrimage, from the roots of its popularity, its religious significanct, the social forces at play as different communities chafe against one another, and the commercial...

-- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry introduces Rachel Joyce as a wise—and utterly irresistible—storyteller.