John Ford

John Ford

February 1, 1894

John Ford (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973) was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach (1939), The Searchers (1956), and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath (1940).…

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The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath

1940 · 2h 9m · Movie

An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

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The Searchers

The Searchers

1956 · 1h 59m · Movie

An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.

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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

1962 · 2h 3m · Movie

A senator returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.

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Stagecoach

Stagecoach

1939 · 1h 36m · Movie

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.

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The Quiet Man

The Quiet Man

1952 · 2h 9m · Movie

A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in 1920s Ireland, where he falls for a spirited redhead whose brother is contemptuous of their union.

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How Green Was My Valley

How Green Was My Valley

1941 · 1h 58m · Movie

At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.

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My Darling Clementine

My Darling Clementine

1946 · 1h 37m · Movie

After their cattle are stolen and their brother murdered, the Earp brothers have a score to settle with the Clanton family.

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How the West Was Won

How the West Was Won

1962 · 2h 44m · Movie

A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the 19th century, including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the building of the railroads.

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Fort Apache

Fort Apache

1948 · 2h 8m · Movie

At Fort Apache, an honorable and veteran war captain finds conflict when his regime is placed under the command of a young, glory hungry lieutenant colonel with no respect for the local Indian tribe.

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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

1949 · 1h 44m · Movie

Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.

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Rio Grande

Rio Grande

1950 · 1h 45m · Movie

A cavalry officer posted on the Rio Grande is confronted with murderous raiding Apaches, a son who's a risk-taking recruit and his wife from whom he has been separated for many years.

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The Horse Soldiers

The Horse Soldiers

1959 · 2h 0m · Movie

In 1863, a Union outfit is sent behind Confederate lines in Mississippi to destroy enemy railroads but a captive southern belle and the unit's doctor cause frictions within ranks.

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3 Godfathers

3 Godfathers

1948 · 1h 46m · Movie

Three outlaws on the run risk their freedom and their lives to return a newborn to civilization.

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Donovan's Reef

Donovan's Reef

1963 · 1h 49m · Movie

In an ideal society on a picturesque South Seas isle, diverse people live in harmony until an outsider disrupts the balance.

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They Were Expendable

They Were Expendable

1945 · 2h 15m · Movie

A Navy commander fights to prove the battle-worthiness of the PT boat at the start of World War II.

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Mogambo

Mogambo

1953 · 1h 56m · Movie

On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.

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Young Mr. Lincoln

Young Mr. Lincoln

1939 · 1h 40m · Movie

A fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case.

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The Informer

The Informer

1935 · 1h 31m · Movie

In 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in.

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Drums Along the Mohawk

Drums Along the Mohawk

1939 · 1h 44m · Movie

Newlyweds Gil and Lana Martin try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the Revolutionary War begins.

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Cheyenne Autumn

Cheyenne Autumn

1964 · 2h 34m · Movie

The Cheyenne, tired of broken U.S. government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation.

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The Long Voyage Home

The Long Voyage Home

1940 · 1h 45m · Movie

A merchant ship's crew tries to survive the loneliness of the sea and the coming of war.

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The Wings of Eagles

The Wings of Eagles

1957 · 1h 50m · Movie

A biography of Navy flier-turned-screenwriter Frank W. "Spig" Wead.

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The Last Hurrah

The Last Hurrah

1958 · 2h 1m · Movie

Frank Skeffington is an old Irish-American political boss, running for re-election as mayor of a U.S. town for the last time.

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The Lost Patrol

The Lost Patrol

1934 · 1h 13m · Movie

A dozen British soldiers, lost in a Mesopotamian desert during World War I, are menaced by unseen Arab enemies.

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The Whole Town's Talking

The Whole Town's Talking

1935 · 1h 33m · Movie

A meek milquetoast clerk is mistaken for public enemy N° 1, and the notorious killer takes advantage of the situation.

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The Long Gray Line

The Long Gray Line

1955 · 2h 18m · Movie

In 1898, Irish immigrant Martin Maher is hired as a civilian employee at West Point where, during a 50-year career, he rises to the rank of NCO and instructor.

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The Hurricane

The Hurricane

1937 · 1h 44m · Movie

A Polynesian sailor unjustly imprisoned after defending himself against a colonial bully is relentlessly persecuted by his island's martinet French governor.

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Mary of Scotland

Mary of Scotland

1936 · 2h 3m · Movie

The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.

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7 Women

7 Women

1965 · 1h 27m · Movie

In 1935 China, seven dedicated missionary women try to protect themselves from the advances of a barbaric Mongolian warlord and his cut-throat gang of warriors.

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Judge Priest

Judge Priest

1934 · 1h 20m · Movie

Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, uses common sense and considerable humanity to dispense justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky.

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The Fugitive

The Fugitive

1947 · 1h 44m · Movie

Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the state's last remaining priest.

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Arrowsmith

Arrowsmith

1931 · 1h 48m · Movie

A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.

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Wee Willie Winkie

Wee Willie Winkie

1937 · 1h 40m · Movie

Priscilla Williams, a young girl living with her widowed mother and paternal grandfather at the post he commands in northern India, becomes enamored of military life and embroiled in brewing rebellion against the crown in the earl...

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Gideon of Scotland Yard

Gideon of Scotland Yard

1958 · 1h 31m · Movie

A typical day for Scotland Yard Chief Inspector George Gideon consists of working on several cases at the same time.

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Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps

Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps

1945 · 59m · Movie

Produced and presented as evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Hermann Göring and twenty other Nazi leaders.

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Four Sons

Four Sons

1928 · 1h 40m · Movie

A family saga in which three sons of a Bavarian widow go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent.

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