The following YouTube videos illustrate how Joseph Campbell's monomyth can be seen in the plots of various modern movies. Sometimes this has been done deliberately by writers, but other times the similarities appear because, Campbell believes, this is the way people tell stories about heroes.
- Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey Overview, The Least You Need to Know (YouTubeLink)
- The Hero's Journey: Various (YouTubeLink)
- The Hero's Journey: Star Wars, Harry Potter, Wizard of Oz (YouTubeLink)
- The Heroic Monomyth- By Tim Miller (YouTubeLink)
- The Matrix - Joseph Campbell Monomyth (YouTubeLink)
- Harry Potter - The Hero's Journey (YouTubeLink)
- Lost - A Hero's Journey (YouTubeLink)
- The Hero's Journey in Spiderman (YouTubeLink)
- Hero's Journey - Finding Nemo (YouTubeLink)
- Lord of the Rings - Hero's Journey Model (YouTubeLink)
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