The Americas with Simon Reeve (2019)

It topped your list for best TV show at our 2020 Reader Travel Awards. Once you’ve binged on Simon’s journeys hiking through the Rocky Mountains, hanging out with the US Border Patrol in Texas and discovering a tropical paradise in Costa Rica, you can try his other documentaries: the Caribbean, Australia, the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean.

Where to watch it: BBC iplayer

While you may be hitting pause on your adventures, you can still be transported somewhere wild by using your TV remote as your passport to exotic climes...

Joanna Lumley’s Hidden Caribbean: Havana to Haiti (2020)

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Australia in…

The heat steams upwards off the Outback in this hallucinatory haze of a film, about two lost siblings ferried back to civilisation by a passing Aboriginal boy.

Where to watch it:stream on Amazon Prime or the BFI Player (1971)

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Latin America in... (2004)

Che Guevara’s literary account of his travels around South America inspired many a revolutionary. The movie on the other hand inspired many people to visit South America.

Where to watch it:

Stream now on All4

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Europe in… The trilogy

(1995-2013)

Travel plans are made to be broken with young, articulate strangers Jesse and Celine jumping the train to fall in love in Vienna, then rekindling their friendship in Paris and nearly extinguishing it in the Peloponnese.

Where to watch it:

Rent/buy on Amazon Prime

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Jordan in...

(1962)

The atmospheric Wadi Rum is now a familiar ‘otherworldly’ location in cinema, but is at its best playing itself in David Lean’s epic biopic.

Where to watch it:

Rent/buy on Amazon Prime

Discover the world from comfort of your home, with movie classics, blockbusters and underrated independent films showcasing the world’s most cinematic destinations...

Jaipur & Udaipur in...