World's 12 Best Travel Movies

Based on the extraordinary life of Karen Blixen, a wealthy Danish writer who established a coffee plantation in Kenya in the '30s, Sydney Pollack's Oscar-winning film is a tribute to the continent with the widest skies in the world. Like many travelers of her time, Meryl Streep's Blixen romanticizes Africa, but it is a performance shot through with passion and intensity. For once, Robert Redford, as languid lover and big-game hunter Denys Finch Hatton, plays second fiddle, though he possesses the truer relation to Africa. As he tells her, "We're not owners here, Karen. We're just passing through."