Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago (2013)

The documentary companion to The Way, and the better guide if you are seriously thinking of going. Lydia B. Smith follows six real pilgrims through one season on the Camino's nearly 500 miles across northern Spain, among them a devout French mother walking with her three-year-old son. Nobody here is acting out a breakthrough, so the blisters, rain, arguments and slow acceptance feel earned. It is more interested in the walkers than in the scenery, which is exactly why it tells you what the route actually asks of a body and a temper.