John Ford: El hombre que inventó América

This documentary can't even get it right about which eye Ford lost. They don't know that John Wayne got his big break from Raoul Walsh in 1930 but because The Big Trail" was such a box office flop (personally I liked it) Wayne ended up playing endless B westerns. The documentary ignores Ford's long term relationship with Walter Wanger (the guy who backed Ford on Stagecoach and other films). Apparently they don't know that Ford learned about westerns working with Thomas Ince, the man who was called the "Father of the Western". And I could go on and on. John Ford was one of the best directors ever. He deserves better.

As others have posted, I eagerly sat down to watch this bio of Ford.

As others have also posted, what we saw was a hodgepodge of left wing academia and for some odd reason, multiple French eggheads, put their modern day spin on Fords work.

The worst part was someone claiming Ford put manly men on film because he was afraid of his own feminine side. Where they dreamed up this gem is beyond me, and of course they don't provide any proof of their weird claim. Another gem was claiming the Searchers only shows the savagery of the American Cavalry, because of the devastation left behind in a village of Indians, while completely ignoring the reason for Ethan Edwards search, which arose from the Indians savagery of his family. But the most laughable part was telling us about Ford having failed cataract surgery in his right eye, causing him to wear a patch on his right eye. While showing him in closeup wearing his eye patch on his left eye.

This is not a true bio of a great American director, but an exercise in pushing a set of beliefs disguised as a documentary.

10 minutes into this, the narrator declares Ford gave John Wayne his first starring role in Stagecoach. Which any amateur film fan knows is COMPLETELY WRONG. Not only did Raoul Walsh do that in 1930 (9 years earlier), but Wayne had starred in B Westerns all through the thirties.

Pearl Harbor was December 7, 1941, not 1942. Who's doing the research on this Documentary, I think they were drunk at the time

Horrible example of leftist media suckering you in with an interesting topic/subject then filling it with their own political agenda that has nothing to do with the life and times of John Ford.

I'm a huge John Ford film fan; However and I was born after most of his classic Westerns were made, I know little about the man. Only from snippets from the TCM Hosts do I know a few things So I was very interested when I stumbled upon this documentary Well, They tease you with glorious images of Monument Valley; but spend time bashing Trump -right in the middle of a documentary about a legendary field director who made 'Stagecoach in 1939 and The Searchers in '56 They got some clown bashing Trump ?

Also what's with the interviewing of some French people without ever establishing their credentials.

What an epic waste of time.