John Ford, l'homme qui inventa l'Amérique

I enjoyed the footage of John Ford films and it was very interesting. They had too much of a leftist point of view in the documentary and way too much politics.

I enjoyed the film footage, and the interviews with Ford, if for no other reason than they revealed his personality, but who needs the opinions of all of the other people that are totally irrelevant. That's what brought my rating down to a 5. And why on earth bring politics into this documentary about a director? Give us a break.

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.

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.

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