Jeremiah Johnson (1972)

In Sydney Pollack’s 1972 classic, Robert Redford’s Jeremiah Johnson leaves the army and the world behind to become a mountain man in the Rockies. He knows almost nothing about surviving, and the wilderness nearly kills him before a grizzled old trapper teaches him how to live.

Seen through a Christian lens, Jeremiah Johnson is a story about humility, mentorship, and the cost of vengeance. Jeremiah learns from wiser men, but when tragedy strikes his family, revenge pulls him into an endless cycle of violence. The mountains are beautiful, but no man can make it alone or outrun his own grief.

“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” Proverbs 27:17