Occurrences in Film and Television
- The hymn appears on the soundtrack of Spike Lee's film When the Levees Broke.
- An episode of the television series The Waltons included Jason singing this hymn numerous times.
- This hymn was played during the final scene of the final episode of the series 7th Heaven. It was played and sung by Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch.
- This hymn is played in The Apostle and is performed by Gary Chapman and Wynonna Judd on the soundtrack.
- The hymn is sung by mourners at a funeral in the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
- The first season finale of the HBO program Treme is named after the hymn, and it is performed at the end of the episode as part of a second line by the Treme Brass Band.
- It was in the film and soundtrack for O Brother Where Art Thou?
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“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”
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“Television ... helps blur the distinction between framed and unframed reality. Whereas going to the movies necessarily entails leaving one’s ordinary surroundings, soap operas are in fact spatially inseparable from the rest of one’s life. In homes where television is on most of the time, they are also temporally integrated into one’s “real” life and, unlike the experience of going out in the evening to see a show, may not even interrupt its regular flow.”
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