I'm Australian. Ford Motor Company has a proud history in Australia. The Geelong plant the first and the Grandest. My Grandfather drove Fords, my Dad drove Fords, and I will always buy and drive Fords.
I am in Victoria, and been a Ford bloke for over 40 years, proudly sucked the headlight out of anything Holden way back in the 80's at the Dandy drags, loved my first Ford, XB 351 in all black. I have been to the Geelong plant 20 years ago as they were a client of mine, was a real eye opener to see the in's and out's. Also people should read his book ''The International Jew'', as he was spot on about them. My first car was a V8 Ford, and now as an old bloke I still drive a Ford V8 and looking at a stang when I get my hands on my super fund in a year or so.
All i have heard are snippets of the Legend. This was an incredible documentary that opened my eyes. Ford was one of the biggest folk heroes America has produced. His criticism of the " money-changers " put him into a very precarious position as far as his place in history. I am more than half-way into the video. So far it seems balanced. I wanted to cry when i found out about " Greenfield Village ". I than wanted to cry again at the end with the death of Henry's son Edsel. This documentary is almost a Greek tragedy. I feel this documentary is a very loving - but very fair description.
Interesting fact is that he didn't realize that the world evolved trough a mass consumption mechanism and that consumers minds evolved demanding different products, this is really a great way to study them in favor of your company, analizyng consumers needs is a great practice. This fact is a gift to us from this documentary.
My nearly all original 1960 Ford F100 has been with me now for over 20 years. I love it like a brother and keep this documentary in mind next time I give it a spin. Impressive work, thank you very much.
There is a reason why the Model T beat out all the other cars from all the other companies - the width of the wheel track exactly matched the carriage ruts left by horse-drawn vehicles; so, where other cars couldn't make it along all the muddy roads of cities at that time, the Model T could use the shallow compacted mud at the bottom of carriage wheel ruts, and drive at normal speed.
That is so smart. No other car manufacturer thought of that. Henry didn't understand Market Trends, he lost market share by refusing to make a different car. Mr. Sloan saw this weakness and exploited it.
That is too straightforward. What was stopping other companies from following suit? It does not make sense. This would be an easy change for competitors.
@@thenewindia6396 nothing was stopping them - but they didn't realise what was going on, or didn't think it was that big a thing. Subsequently, Ford grabbed a massive market share, and the other companies had to try to wrestle it back.
@@mortenpoulsen1496 No one care. And me, I don't like french fries. Who cares if you are racist or not. as long you shut up stay calm and don't hurt others. NO ONE WANT TO KNOW IF YOU ARE RACIST OR NOT IF YOU PREFERE RED OR BLUE. NO ONE CARE.
I really enjoyed watching this documentary. At the end of the day Henry Ford was a person with weaknesses like every other human. But he played a big part in the American Dream.
Well put..feel like lots of people esp.younger.have no concept.of harsh times like prohibition.or WWs..The Great Depression.etc.Makes for a impersonal.indifferent times i get why lots want to move "off.grid"!❤
@busyrightnow7259 It was not only to the German side. He helped, with his engineers, factory and technology, to build up and modernize the soviet state. Reading the book "coming out of the ice" gives a good insight into this piece of history. Just like many other companies at that time, that still exists, they played both sides and as usual war is great business. Speaking of Patton, he didn´t want to stop in Germany, but go on and crush the red terror threatening the whole of Europe... he was a lone voice tough and had the western power-houses against him who had invested heavily into Soviet.
u are excellent at creating incredible videos, because it is a long video we do not even notice the number of minutes, but the quality that is your work.
Thank you for an honest, well researched and presented look at a remarkable man. He was a visionary and genius…but he was deeply flawed, and the two sides of his nature could never be at peace. Despite his best efforts, his Son remained a good man, and raised his own children without the prejudices and narcissism of his Father, thanks, I’m sure to his Mother’s influence.🖤🇨🇦
This is a fascinating documentary. The actual footage used throughout, the narration and even the musical score used are all perfect for conveying the information. Made me think a lot of my Grandfather and his work with Clessie Cummins on the diesel engine and early race car in the original building in Columbus, Indiana. Thanks from Cambodia!
@Syd McCreath I dunno about you, but I see endless brainwashing & grubby cunning littered throughout this docco. Henry tried to keep his only son away from the parasites & poisoners & failed. He also employed his only son into duping parasitic investors into flogging off their Ford company stock. Gee, I wonder who fed the carcinogens to Edsel to induce stomach cancer? Henry stood up to the parasite & tried to alert the world to their antihuman filth. If they were able to destroy his only son & manouvre his grandson into listing the Ford Motor Company on the Filth York Stock Exchange, what hope does any nonfilth have? The natural occupants of this planet have no hope. The parasite has us by the throat.
I have been a Ford bloke for over 40 years, Henry was ahead of his time, I also agree with many of his world views, and people should read his book ''The International Jew'', or the the KJV as it also talks about ''them'' as well.
@sydmccreath4554 I know your type, McCreath. You probably think the modern world started with something other than the Model T. People like you are likely to think Amricans could imagine great futures even before Henry Ford showed them how it's done. Sheesh!
Facinating. I have always adored classic cars, and even painted pictures of them. What history. A man to both be admired and detested. His poor son never got his dues and died from the misty of his father . What a visionary Henry Ford was. Such a shame to be such a bully and controller.
Really Enjoyed that. Fascinating I live Essex outskirts of E.London U.K had a massive Ford Plant Dagenham. All my youth pretty much dominated the area. Employment Dad worked there his dad then you. Every 1 drove a Ford. Like all car manufacturers here in u.k all gone. Little bit remains. Small engine dept.
Watching because I want to see if his papers get covered. Edit. Just finished watching. Fantastic documentary 👏 👏👏 The brilliant and the pathetic, the genius and the fool, well done. No wonder he was the "creator" of the society of a brave world. T Have you done Dr Kellogg yet? Another similarly visionary genius and fool.
A Brilliantly put together documentary of the Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company. I had a potted knowledge but you explained so well the many gaps. Thank you for a very informative and excellently compared Film. Take a Bow all who contributed to making a Brilliant Biography of Henry Ford. I felt so terribly sorry for his son RIP Edsel.
Exactly. Henry Ford as an adult must have completely forgotten the sacrifice his farmer parents made by letting him freely abandon farming work to live the life he wanted and pursue his dreams and happiness by his own standards, and he unfortunately never grew intelligent enough to give the same to his own son, even though he may have had benevolent intentions at the root. This phenomenon is quite observable at other points in his life, and in other remarks and observations he made, too: a very good, but superficial observer, never looking for an explanation deeper than what seems to satisfy contemporary practical needs. Try to explain to the first man on Earth who said "The Sun revolves around the Earth and therefore the Earth is not flat in all probability." that he is not 100% right...
@@szk7505 Maybe they felt that he had something special. They were right. Your asserton that he "never grew intelligent enough" suggests that you aren't worthy of commenting on Henry Ford.
@@russellbrown3800 You misunderstood me. Not Henry Ford the genius inventor, but Henry Ford the stubborn father with his marble-hard skull, who never gave the understanding and liberty to his own son he himself had received from his own parents in his time. Without which he would have probably remained a bitter, mediocre farmer, perhaps financially well off, but mourning his unborn inventions all his life deep inside. Fathers who are turned into self made men by the circumstances of their own lives - not only in the classical, capitalist sense of the expression, but who have to become young adults very fast for some reason, often fall into this trap of selfishness despite the best of intentions. They fail to realise the son is not another invention, concept, blueprint or project of theirs but a sovereign individual with his own plans and ideas.
@@szk7505 Thanks, @szk7505 for taking the time to reply to me and to explain your point of view so clearly. My own impression about this documentary is that it's ok up to exactly 1 hour in. After that, they get down to business and it's not worth watching (and it makes me wonder why I wasted an hour looking at the first part - foolish of me to expect any better of PBS). As to Henry Ford; no-one's perfect but, one way or another, he contributed more to the working class than almost anyone else I can think of. Certainly, more than any socialist who comes to mind. Can you think of anyone who benefited the working class more than Henry Ford? It's an interesting question.
She in my opinion is a verry credible witness I believe her 100 percent can't wait for episode 2 keep the good work up we have a right to know the truth
He wasn't just inventor car maker . He was deep thinker and he understands what is wrong with a world back then , probably to these days . One of a kind Henry Ford .
He was hardly a deep thinker. Had terrible prejudices and had no way to weigh his narrow views toward other than in his little corner of the world. He was able to think practically and had good business sense.
Henry Ford created a rubber plantation in South America and a new town for the workers. It was a monumental failure. He had not even had the soil tested there in order to know if rubber trees could be grown there. Good to know what you don't know, wouldn't you say?
@@gregorybezanson you can be a deep thinker at the parochial level too. You don't allways have to ponder the vastness of the universe to be a clear concise thinker.
Henry being an old man, he took credit for his son’s successful car design, schmuck. Henry didn’t adapt to change very well, this was the perfect time for Edsel to take over since he was modern and was in touch with younger society. The people wanted options and change since the 1920’s went roaring.
God bless Henry Ford a towering figure and a inspiring man and his Model T ford's still survive today and running after 100 years after they were well built and stood the test of time amazing gentleman 🧐
Wow! That was fantastic. I did not know how much of an influence Henry Ford had on America. So much happened during his lifetime. Super interesting documentary!
Very informative - to know the corporate practices he used and how he bungled the right of workers to unionize; at the personal level, it is inspiring to know how hard work and passion can lead to success. I wonder, for social responsibility, did he put up a foundation or an organization to perpetuate his ideas?
Wonderful story....he believed in himself and acted with convictions. Sad his son died, but I probably could see why he behaved the way he did towards him. In the end he showed how deeply he loved his son. How frustrating that with all his wealth he couldn't stop him from dying. Where he asked the doctors to restore his son's health was particularly moving
George Westinghouse not only came first, but he did a lot more to usher on the modern world that we live in. It's wrong to give all the credit to Henry Ford alone.
Wasn't it Henry Ford that stated; " If ordinary people actually knew how the banks operate tonight, we would wake up to a revolution" in a mocking manner?
Great documentary, thank you. 1:49:39 My only quibble is with "the most influential industrialist of his time" claim. Production lines remain to this day but I suggest the spreading of AC power by Tesla was even more influential.
It's quality vs cheapness, & it is the human condition to not understand the difference & naturally be drawn to a inferior product because of price & the illusion they r getting a good deal, rather than buying something that has been built to last & has been built with some pride, cheapness has no cure or pride.
Fordlandia, one can criticize him for some things there, but rubber, back in the day was seriously silly to get. The prices jumped up and down free willy nilly. So the idea to have his own rubber plantation was really really smart.
I believed his vision. He is truly a great man in the history of mankind. Even in our country the Philippines we had a lot of Ford distributor that helps our economy rising.
He (Ford) also arranged limitless amount of transport vehichles and free petrol for Franco`s fascists. And a ban on helping the legal spanish government.
Correction ! It was the assembly plant system which caught the eye of Hitler, not Ford the man. Albert Speier who was in charge of producing all the weapons needed by the Germans did indeed implement many of Ford's assembly line practices. Just as Field Marshal Guiderian studied Britain's tank battle techniques from the first WW. All ideas were there for the taking. You did not need to be a fan of the originators to copy them.
Henry Ford was a hypocrite. He became what he accused the Jews of being. Henry Ford tried to come across as an American patriot advancing his country providing it was done under his rules, he was the boss and held the ultimate power. My dad worked as a conveyor belt worker at the Dagenham, UK plant in 1962. At that time my dad was earning £20 a week, which back then was higher than the standard wage. But they not only expected sweat and toil, they wanted blood and the workers were treated like crap and ruled with an iron hand. Dad told me men were peeing and crapping themselves because they were not given time to use a toilet. This was not just work this was hard labour and after 4 months my dad left, it physically and mentally exhausted him. I can remember even at the UK factories there were constant strikes and eventually the Dagenham plant shut down.
Exactly. I thort that too. He became the oppressor. Happy workers are working workers. Oppressed workers can seek revenge too. Just like in communism oppressed people get tired of the them and us attitude and eventually revolt or leave their country.
Henry Ford could not do the complex math and physics when designing a car, but I heard that he had a brilliant engineer working for him who did most of the ground work and Henry would check over it, make any changes and pass it. That is how, I suppose, the model 'T' came into being. It isn't an ordinary car, upon closer look you can see it has many aspects of a properly engineered vehicle for the time when proper roads were few and especially the rural folk were far out in the outback. The railways had laid the foundations for connecting the country and Henry must have thought the car would do the same at a personal level. The 'Fordlandia' project was mentioned, but in passing toward the end. I think this was one of Henry's brilliant projects to warrant in depth presentation. Ford also had an assembly plant in Japan back then, which churned out cars in tendem with Japanese home grown manufacturers. I am not sure if Ford had in Henry's time a plant in India, which is a major market (GM had an assembly plant there in the 30's), and latin America.
@@russellbrown3800 Thats right, from my brother, who read about it in some article. This was in the late 1980's. But, having said that, if you take a close look at the Model 'T' design, you can see it has elements that would only have been designed by a qualified engineer. In those early pioneering days, there were a few schooled engineers, mostly who were into railways, ship building and bridge building.
@@mohabatkhanmalak1161 One thing the Model T had was a wheel width the same as a carriage. This enabled the Ford to run in the packed wheel ruts of dirt roads, where other cars had trouble in muddy conditions.🖤🇨🇦
@@tamarrajames3590 Thats one of the design features that made this a truely frontier vehicle. Some of the other features were the chassis was made to twist and take those rough country roads well, then the simplicity so anyone with a wrench could repair the model 'T' easily.
You do have employers like this today....................Go work in a Toyota plant or their suppliers, you are to DO as your told, ONLY as your told, live and breath the plant and sacrifice your family life to see it succeed..................For all of this you are awarded a good wage, let's just hope you live long enough to enjoy it as the plant will eek every last ounce of work out of you for it.
are you crazy ? look it up ! ford was a scumbag who had his own private gestapo thugs he sent to beat the employees if they complained about the cruel 12 hour days with no breaks 7 days a week .
@@bobsaturday4273 Go to the Henry Ford museum- there isn't much about "The Battle of the Overpass" or Harry Bennett and the so-called "Service Department" who were the thugs you refer to and the Dearborn Independent. Walter Reuther was one of the men beaten up on the overpass and there is a lot about him in Wikipedia. But, it's a hell of a museum; there is an unbelievable amount of stuff there and that's just the Henry Ford, not Greenfield Village which I must admit I have not yet visited.
I once had seen that blue glue satelite with a new styling corn tape on. It grew in ration with its own bed. Then for a clear take we had to over rate them and sure staple their outwards. It became a new bend on the outskirts.
@@den264 You are very likely correct. When I watched it for the first time, it seemed fanatical in a consumerism-conscious sort of way....a guy gets rich in order to buy all he can...but really, what I got from it the second time seemed more clear and it seems its about the young boy's inability to obtain what toy made him feel complete, and as a result, went on throughout his entire adult life searching for what object could possibly bring him the exact same joyful feeling he had when he played with his rosebud sled. In the end, we all know we can't take any of it with us to the other side but we're always hopeful, aren't we?🤗
The International Jew is a four-volume set of booklets or pamphlets originally published and distributed in the early 1920s by the Dearborn Publishing Company, an outlet owned by Henry Ford, the American industrialist and automobile manufacturer. The booklets were a collection of articles originally serialized in Ford's Dearborn Independent newspaper, beginning with The International Jew: The World's Problem, published on May 22, 1920.
I still own my 1926 Ford model T roadster Pickup had it for 26 years so far.
Does that mean it's 1952?
Henry Ford is a visionary
Was*
Cool!
I am not a 'car' person but I am fascinated by the man and his families dynamics
He helped fund the Nazi Regime as well, was that mentioned?
You should go visit his old house in Dearborn it’s fascinating.
Yes you might say that and nice comment I really hope we could be friends and talk more
I'm Australian. Ford Motor Company has a proud history in Australia. The Geelong plant the first and the Grandest. My Grandfather drove Fords, my Dad drove Fords, and I will always buy and drive Fords.
Ford opened Geelong in 1925 .. but here in cork ford opened in 1917 ..
My great grandfather worked their.... until WW2.
Thank Henry for that. 😊 I only said this cos that's my name 😅 lol.
Holden Kingswood 😋
Nobody cares about Australia, quit trying to inject yourself into other people’s history
I am in Victoria, and been a Ford bloke for over 40 years, proudly sucked the headlight out of anything Holden way back in the 80's at the Dandy drags, loved my first Ford, XB 351 in all black. I have been to the Geelong plant 20 years ago as they were a client of mine, was a real eye opener to see the in's and out's. Also people should read his book ''The International Jew'', as he was spot on about them. My first car was a V8 Ford, and now as an old bloke I still drive a Ford V8 and looking at a stang when I get my hands on my super fund in a year or so.
Recently I went to Same ford plant in Detroit where he stated and now Ford has huge museum , It was a goosebump moments...LEGEND
All i have heard are snippets of the Legend. This was an incredible documentary that opened my eyes. Ford was one of the biggest folk heroes America has produced. His criticism of the " money-changers " put him into a very precarious position as far as his place in history. I am more than half-way into the video. So far it seems balanced. I wanted to cry when i found out about " Greenfield Village ". I than wanted to cry again at the end with the death of Henry's son Edsel. This documentary is almost a Greek tragedy. I feel this documentary is a very loving - but very fair description.
his newspaper reminded me on german ones ... man o man, Patton ...
He was a raving anti-Semite to the point that Hitler had a framed portrait of Henry Ford .
@@ISRAELITE.ZEBULUNat this point i wish we were done with this topic - but unfortunately the actual reality continues.
You might find listening to speeches from George Lincoln Rockwell interesting. They can be heard on Odessey
Interesting fact is that he didn't realize that the world evolved trough a mass consumption mechanism and that consumers minds evolved demanding different products, this is really a great way to study them in favor of your company, analizyng consumers needs is a great practice.
This fact is a gift to us from this documentary.
Hello ❤❤❤❤
This is the kind of tv show I want to watch
show the tragedy that start for the amazon forest
There is a reason we have PBS watch this Doc for just 1 of them, Thank you PBS
Yes, for Henry Ford
nobody's perfect. respect legends, learn from them, but don't worship them so we won't repeat the same mistake.
great documentary!!!!!!
The archive footages that accompany the impeccable narration makes this that much more compelling….wonderful doc PBS America….
My nearly all original 1960 Ford F100 has been with me now for over 20 years. I love it like a brother and keep this documentary in mind next time I give it a spin. Impressive work, thank you very much.
I so enjoy PBS documentaries.
What an exceptional documentary.
yeah exceltional bs isolation and the car. yeah like no one had horses
Nothing exceptional about a left-wing PBS documentary.
It’s very good.
There is a reason why the Model T beat out all the other cars from all the other companies - the width of the wheel track exactly matched the carriage ruts left by horse-drawn vehicles; so, where other cars couldn't make it along all the muddy roads of cities at that time, the Model T could use the shallow compacted mud at the bottom of carriage wheel ruts, and drive at normal speed.
That is so smart. No other car manufacturer thought of that. Henry didn't understand Market Trends, he lost market share by refusing to make a different car. Mr. Sloan saw this weakness and exploited it.
Didn't know that, and certaintly wouldn't have known it if I'd relied on PBS or "historians" like Stephen Watts.
That is too straightforward. What was stopping other companies from following suit? It does not make sense. This would be an easy change for competitors.
@@thenewindia6396 nothing was stopping them - but they didn't realise what was going on, or didn't think it was that big a thing. Subsequently, Ford grabbed a massive market share, and the other companies had to try to wrestle it back.
This is BS.
Clearly didn't watch the documentary.
Wow. Well done PBS. Just facts. No spin. Refreshing. Really enjoyed. Thank you.
Lies they want you to belive
@@borgtoronto7782Yet you provide no alternative? You’re in denial.
Indeed
I still think they made him sound nicer than he was. Henry Ford was not a good person. He reminds me of Elon Musk, or perhaps Musk reminds me of Ford.
Wow What a history lesson and using all that wonderfull original footage to tell the story thanks
The one of the best entrepreneur in the world.
And racist
Ford is my role model
@@mortenpoulsen1496 Don't just can complaint other people racist, are you as kind as angel？
@@muridmili8137 Well I'm not racist. 😃
@@mortenpoulsen1496 No one care. And me, I don't like french fries. Who cares if you are racist or not. as long you shut up stay calm and don't hurt others. NO ONE WANT TO KNOW IF YOU ARE RACIST OR NOT IF YOU PREFERE RED OR BLUE. NO ONE CARE.
I really enjoyed watching this documentary. At the end of the day Henry Ford was a person with weaknesses like every other human. But he played a big part in the American Dream.
Well put..feel like lots of people esp.younger.have no concept.of harsh times like prohibition.or WWs..The Great Depression.etc.Makes for a impersonal.indifferent times i get why lots want to move "off.grid"!❤
As a guy from Detroit, Ford is a hero. A flawed hero, but after some study, most of our heroes are flawed. Great man.
In some parts Ger too. Heil Henry
A Nazi sympathizer and a hero of Shitler
The only "heroes" were the automotive workers. People like Henry Ford are only parasites on the backs of the working classes.
I have a Ford car. I love it. I always dreamt of having a Ford car when I was a kid. Now I have it. Thank you Sir Henry Ford.
@busyrightnow7259 It was not only to the German side. He helped, with his engineers, factory and technology, to build up and modernize the soviet state. Reading the book "coming out of the ice" gives a good insight into this piece of history. Just like many other companies at that time, that still exists, they played both sides and as usual war is great business.
Speaking of Patton, he didn´t want to stop in Germany, but go on and crush the red terror threatening the whole of Europe... he was a lone voice tough and had the western power-houses against him who had invested heavily into Soviet.
@Busy right now weaponized lmao
@Busy right now After the War, he sued the American government for bombing his German factory…and was given a settlement.🖤🇨🇦
u are excellent at creating incredible videos, because it is a long video we do not even notice the number of minutes, but the quality that is your work.
I enjoyed watching this documentary. Many thanks! Very interesting story and very professionally made movie.
This would make a Oscar winning film 🎥
Daniel day Lewis as the oil baron kinda made it in many ways
The family drama throughout the documentary is intriguing. Maybe scratching the surface of the depth, of what lay under their woodpile.
Thank you for an honest, well researched and presented look at a remarkable man. He was a visionary and genius…but he was deeply flawed, and the two sides of his nature could never be at peace. Despite his best efforts, his Son remained a good man, and raised his own children without the prejudices and narcissism of his Father, thanks, I’m sure to his Mother’s influence.🖤🇨🇦
what a shame company leaders these days don't roll up their sleeves. Too busy holding their heartless greed up.
Well they also don’t publish articles maligning Jewish people
Many thanks for this wonderful documentary. He is the man. Never perfect!
Ford is not just a car brand, Ford is a philosophy of life.
This is a fascinating documentary. The actual footage used throughout, the narration and even the musical score used are all perfect for conveying the information. Made me think a lot of my Grandfather and his work with Clessie Cummins on the diesel engine and early race car in the original building in Columbus, Indiana. Thanks from Cambodia!
Very respectable! Thank you for this production😊
So old Henry actually turned into the very kind of person young Henry couldn't stand.
@Syd McCreath lol
@Syd McCreath
I dunno about you, but I see endless brainwashing & grubby cunning littered throughout this docco. Henry tried to keep his only son away from the parasites & poisoners & failed. He also employed his only son into duping parasitic investors into flogging off their Ford company stock. Gee, I wonder who fed the carcinogens to Edsel to induce stomach cancer?
Henry stood up to the parasite & tried to alert the world to their antihuman filth. If they were able to destroy his only son & manouvre his grandson into listing the Ford Motor Company on the Filth York Stock Exchange, what hope does any nonfilth have? The natural occupants of this planet have no hope. The parasite has us by the throat.
@Syd McCreath Sssh. Don't say it out loud
How does one TURN INTO A JEW ? PFFFFFF !!
1:30:48 ? how did American Ford workers describe plant security as " The Gestapo " in the late 20s/ early 30s ?
What is history but a pack of lies agreed upon?
@@marsdenk.6162 Quiet, they might hear you!
They just can't help themselves...
I have been a Ford bloke for over 40 years, Henry was ahead of his time, I also agree with many of his world views, and people should read his book ''The International Jew'', or the the KJV as it also talks about ''them'' as well.
what is the KJV?
Wonderful, comprehensive and informative.. Love every second of it.. Big salute from Somalia 🇸🇴
Did you say Somalia so is al chabab doing
Uria magaa endele abdi
Did they mention in this documentary that he helped fund the Nazi Regime?? Thats a pretty important part about Ford that might be left out.
@@Zoubirking-1970😭
Background score of this Video is so amazing
This must be the most well put together documentary I've seen . Well done
@sydmccreath4554
I know your type, McCreath. You probably think the modern world started with something other than the Model T. People like you are likely to think Amricans could imagine great futures even before Henry Ford showed them how it's done.
Sheesh!
@sydmccreath4554 lighten up, your life will actually be enjoyable then, imagine that.
i like the positivity god bless u!@@Kodakcompactdisc
A well-detailed documentary. Thank you for sharing.
Facinating. I have always adored classic cars, and even painted pictures of them. What history. A man to both be admired and detested. His poor son never got his dues and died from the misty of his father . What a visionary Henry Ford was. Such a shame to be such a bully and controller.
great man and he got it right on all counts.....
....I don’t think so❤
@@bruceshearer1719 agree!
Really Enjoyed that. Fascinating I live Essex outskirts of E.London U.K had a massive Ford Plant Dagenham. All my youth pretty much dominated the area. Employment Dad worked there his dad then you. Every 1 drove a Ford. Like all car manufacturers here in u.k all gone. Little bit remains. Small engine dept.
My first car was a much used, two tone, six cylinder Ford Zephyr built in 1959 in the Ford factory in Dagenham, east London. I loved it!
My grandfather knew the Fords. I have photos of him with the Ford family. I never knew the history until now
Watching because I want to see if his papers get covered.
Edit. Just finished watching. Fantastic documentary 👏 👏👏
The brilliant and the pathetic, the genius and the fool, well done.
No wonder he was the "creator" of the society of a brave world.
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Have you done Dr Kellogg yet? Another similarly visionary genius and fool.
He is truly a visionary
A Brilliantly put together documentary of the Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company. I had a potted knowledge but you explained so well the many gaps. Thank you for a very informative and excellently compared Film. Take a Bow all who contributed to making a Brilliant Biography of Henry Ford. I felt so terribly sorry for his son RIP Edsel.
Exactly. Henry Ford as an adult must have completely forgotten the sacrifice his farmer parents made by letting him freely abandon farming work to live the life he wanted and pursue his dreams and happiness by his own standards, and he unfortunately never grew intelligent enough to give the same to his own son, even though he may have had benevolent intentions at the root. This phenomenon is quite observable at other points in his life, and in other remarks and observations he made, too: a very good, but superficial observer, never looking for an explanation deeper than what seems to satisfy contemporary practical needs. Try to explain to the first man on Earth who said "The Sun revolves around the Earth and therefore the Earth is not flat in all probability." that he is not 100% right...
Did they mention in this documentary that he helped fund the Nazi Regime?? Thats a pretty important part about Ford that might be left out.
@@szk7505 Maybe they felt that he had something special. They were right. Your asserton that he "never grew intelligent enough" suggests that you aren't worthy of commenting on Henry Ford.
@@russellbrown3800 You misunderstood me. Not Henry Ford the genius inventor, but Henry Ford the stubborn father with his marble-hard skull, who never gave the understanding and liberty to his own son he himself had received from his own parents in his time. Without which he would have probably remained a bitter, mediocre farmer, perhaps financially well off, but mourning his unborn inventions all his life deep inside. Fathers who are turned into self made men by the circumstances of their own lives - not only in the classical, capitalist sense of the expression, but who have to become young adults very fast for some reason, often fall into this trap of selfishness despite the best of intentions. They fail to realise the son is not another invention, concept, blueprint or project of theirs but a sovereign individual with his own plans and ideas.
@@szk7505 Thanks, @szk7505 for taking the time to reply to me and to explain your point of view so clearly. My own impression about this documentary is that it's ok up to exactly 1 hour in. After that, they get down to business and it's not worth watching (and it makes me wonder why I wasted an hour looking at the first part - foolish of me to expect any better of PBS). As to Henry Ford; no-one's perfect but, one way or another, he contributed more to the working class than almost anyone else I can think of. Certainly, more than any socialist who comes to mind.
Can you think of anyone who benefited the working class more than Henry Ford? It's an interesting question.
She in my opinion is a verry credible witness I believe her 100 percent can't wait for episode 2 keep the good work up we have a right to know the truth
He wasn't just inventor car maker . He was deep thinker and he understands what is wrong with a world back then , probably to these days . One of a kind Henry Ford .
He was hardly a deep thinker. Had terrible prejudices and had no way to weigh his narrow views toward other than in his little corner of the world. He was able to think practically and had good business sense.
Henry Ford created a rubber plantation in South America and a new town for the workers. It was a monumental failure. He had not even had the soil tested there in order to know if rubber trees could be grown there. Good to know what you don't know, wouldn't you say?
He had the international Jewish bankers down to a tee. Not much has changed since I am saddened to report.
@@gregorybezanson you can be a deep thinker at the parochial level too. You don't allways have to ponder the vastness of the universe to be a clear concise thinker.
@@gregorybezanson Don't judge people of the past by today's standards. He would probably be appalled by some of your modern views also.
What a great documentary.
Henry being an old man, he took credit for his son’s successful car design, schmuck. Henry didn’t adapt to change very well, this was the perfect time for Edsel to take over since he was modern and was in touch with younger society. The people wanted options and change since the 1920’s went roaring.
Thanks so much for this very interesting docu on Henry Ford!!!!
Watched it in awe…..
God bless Henry Ford a towering figure and a inspiring man and his Model T ford's still survive today and running after 100 years after they were well built and stood the test of time amazing gentleman 🧐
Henry Ford is genius by all means 😊 I love American people
he never smoked he never drank!! MY MAN
REAL
Before the company he was an alcoholic
@@diedepraveddeepred😅😅😅😮خ😅😅😅ج😅
But he did support the Nazi Party
imagine being this man's son, nightmarish
Wow! That was fantastic. I did not know how much of an influence Henry Ford had on America. So much happened during his lifetime. Super interesting documentary!
Very informative - to know the corporate practices he used and how he bungled the right of workers to unionize; at the personal level, it is inspiring to know how hard work and passion can lead to success. I wonder, for social responsibility, did he put up a foundation or an organization to perpetuate his ideas?
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Did they mention in this documentary that he helped fund the Nazi Regime?? Thats a pretty important part about Ford that might be left out.
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Wow! This was some high quality stuff. Thank you! Very interesting and very well made ❤
One of our hero. Way ahead of your time dear sir. Hope yo see more of you in this generation...
God Willing
Another great doc!
If only they told the WHOLE truth
Wonderful story....he believed in himself and acted with convictions. Sad his son died, but I probably could see why he behaved the way he did towards him. In the end he showed how deeply he loved his son. How frustrating that with all his wealth he couldn't stop him from dying. Where he asked the doctors to restore his son's health was particularly moving
George Westinghouse not only came first, but he did a lot more to usher on the modern world that we live in. It's wrong to give all the credit to Henry Ford alone.
Wow, what a riveting story. Thanks
In his 1927 autobiography, he stated, if I had asked, they would say they wanted faster horses.
HENRY TO A T!
bravo, what a amazing documentary of Henry Ford.
Wasn't it Henry Ford that stated; " If ordinary people actually knew how the banks operate tonight, we would wake up to a revolution" in a mocking manner?
yes.
Leave alone
no his famous quote was when the donkey eats the cheese only then will the rat fall from the tree
That's why Hitler had a life sized bust of Henry Ford in his office.
@@trj1442 Ford had a portrait of Hitler in HIS office…the admiration was mutual.🖤🇨🇦
Wonderful documentary - thank you
Good old Henry certainly proved war being good for business to be correct
Great documentary, thank you. 1:49:39 My only quibble is with "the most influential industrialist of his time" claim. Production lines remain to this day but I suggest the spreading of AC power by Tesla was even more influential.
Meh. Good suggestion
We all stand on the shoulders of those who went before us.
Henry Ford is a legend.
The best part about him was he wrote about the International Jew. He understood it.
@thomaspick4123 he got all that completey wrong
Racist faaaaaar right scumbag
@@lennarthagen3638 hahahaha
no kidding sherlock, did someone help you or did you find that well hidden fact alone?
one of the smartest man in human history
The United States needs an Industrial Policy that rebuilds Manufacturing and the Middle Class
Australia too brother
It's quality vs cheapness, & it is the human condition to not understand the difference & naturally be drawn to a inferior product because of price & the illusion they r getting a good deal, rather than buying something that has been built to last & has been built with some pride, cheapness has no cure or pride.
Thats not the agenda!
Wow congrats galing naman so great inspired to you'
He was an outlier...his genius came about after 30 years old..rare
Even Jesus started his ministry after 30.
@@edgymurphy570 outliers are rare!!
Stalin hated Nazis. You're not fit to carry the name.
Erm no you clown... Most successful people become successful later in life
Fordlandia, one can criticize him for some things there, but rubber, back in the day was seriously silly to get. The prices jumped up and down free willy nilly. So the idea to have his own rubber plantation was really really smart.
What a fantastic documentary
This reminds me of one of my dearest friends and mentors Bill Beckie
Visionario y revolucionario de todos los tiempos, grande Henry Ford!
Brilliant documentary. Very sad about his son and the internal stress he suffered
A very well-done documentary. Thanks for the creators.
He did well but authoritarian which is a contrast of what he wanted
Henry ford: Join the team or get out! That’s great!
Me gustaría ver todas todas sus series Pero en Español no nada de inglés.
POR Fabor se que el Sr.Jarry Ford fue una eminencia excepcional estoy interesada pero no sé nada de inglés.Dolo Español.Gracias.
Great job PBS. Thanks guys good documentary
You can tell by the way he swings an ax, he is the real deal.
Exactly what I was thinking at the time. Yes old Henry was thin and scrawny, but as fit as a fiddle.
Yeah. They all called him lightning because he never struck the same place twice. 😂
1:07:43 I love it : the traffic cop is on horseback ! 😂😂😂 He pointed his horse to show the direction the traffic and pedestrians should go. 😅
Yes
A man well ahead of his time
Did they mention in this documentary that he helped fund the Nazi Regime?? Thats a pretty important part about Ford that might be left out.
Brilliant documentary
He was right about everything.
Except Hitler.
What a story of a great American.
Ford is one of the 100 geniuses who lived throughout history
A great man that changed the world but refused to accept change around him
@@Kodakcompactdisc Riiiight
I believed his vision. He is truly a great man in the history of mankind.
Even in our country the Philippines we had a lot of Ford distributor that helps our economy rising.
What does Lee van Cleef on 40:28? Never knew he worked on the Ford plant.
Hitler so admired Henry Ford that he sent a team of advisers to visit,birds of a feather
He (Ford) also arranged limitless amount of transport vehichles and free petrol for Franco`s fascists. And a ban on helping the legal spanish government.
@@Ah01 Based.
Are you calling Hitler a genius?
@@augustopinochet1670 for example "Anthony Beevor: battle of Spain.."
Correction ! It was the assembly plant system which caught the eye of Hitler, not Ford the man. Albert Speier who was in charge of producing all the weapons needed by the Germans did indeed implement many of Ford's assembly line practices. Just as Field Marshal Guiderian studied Britain's tank battle techniques from the first WW.
All ideas were there for the taking. You did not need to be a fan of the originators to copy them.
A Legend! Remarkable Man.
Henry Ford was a hypocrite.
He became what he accused the Jews of being.
Henry Ford tried to come across as an American patriot advancing his country providing it was done under his rules, he was the boss and held the ultimate power.
My dad worked as a conveyor belt worker at the Dagenham, UK plant in 1962.
At that time my dad was earning £20 a week, which back then was higher than the standard wage.
But they not only expected sweat and toil, they wanted blood and the workers were treated like crap and ruled with an iron hand.
Dad told me men were peeing and crapping themselves because they were not given time to use a toilet.
This was not just work this was hard labour and after 4 months my dad left, it physically and mentally exhausted him.
I can remember even at the UK factories there were constant strikes and eventually the Dagenham plant shut down.
Exactly. I thort that too. He became the oppressor. Happy workers are working workers. Oppressed workers can seek revenge too. Just like in communism oppressed people get tired of the them and us attitude and eventually revolt or leave their country.
Sounds a little like what you hear from people working in Amazon warehouses today.🖤🇨🇦
The finest moments of plutocracy which they long for.
One of most respected technocrat, businessman
Henry Ford could not do the complex math and physics when designing a car, but I heard that he had a brilliant engineer working for him who did most of the ground work and Henry would check over it, make any changes and pass it. That is how, I suppose, the model 'T' came into being. It isn't an ordinary car, upon closer look you can see it has many aspects of a properly engineered vehicle for the time when proper roads were few and especially the rural folk were far out in the outback. The railways had laid the foundations for connecting the country and Henry must have thought the car would do the same at a personal level.
The 'Fordlandia' project was mentioned, but in passing toward the end. I think this was one of Henry's brilliant projects to warrant in depth presentation. Ford also had an assembly plant in Japan back then, which churned out cars in tendem with Japanese home grown manufacturers. I am not sure if Ford had in Henry's time a plant in India, which is a major market (GM had an assembly plant there in the 30's), and latin America.
You "heard" that.
@@russellbrown3800 Thats right, from my brother, who read about it in some article. This was in the late 1980's. But, having said that, if you take a close look at the Model 'T' design, you can see it has elements that would only have been designed by a qualified engineer. In those early pioneering days, there were a few schooled engineers, mostly who were into railways, ship building and bridge building.
He had a factory in Germany.🖤🇨🇦
@@mohabatkhanmalak1161 One thing the Model T had was a wheel width the same as a carriage. This enabled the Ford to run in the packed wheel ruts of dirt roads, where other cars had trouble in muddy conditions.🖤🇨🇦
@@tamarrajames3590 Thats one of the design features that made this a truely frontier vehicle. Some of the other features were the chassis was made to twist and take those rough country roads well, then the simplicity so anyone with a wrench could repair the model 'T' easily.
Excellent documentary.., a genius of a man, sadly flawed iin later lufe. Poor Edsil.
Wouldn't it be nice to have an employer like Henry in our times!!
Do u have workers like his time who worked selflessly and knew what gender they were?
You do have employers like this today....................Go work in a Toyota plant or their suppliers, you are to DO as your told, ONLY as your told, live and breath the plant and sacrifice your family life to see it succeed..................For all of this you are awarded a good wage, let's just hope you live long enough to enjoy it as the plant will eek every last ounce of work out of you for it.
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are you crazy ? look it up ! ford was a scumbag who had his own private gestapo thugs he sent to beat the employees if they complained about the cruel 12 hour days with no breaks 7 days a week .
@@bobsaturday4273 Go to the Henry Ford museum- there isn't much about "The Battle of the Overpass" or Harry Bennett and the so-called "Service Department" who were the thugs you refer to and the Dearborn Independent. Walter Reuther was one of the men beaten up on the overpass and there is a lot about him in Wikipedia.
But, it's a hell of a museum; there is an unbelievable amount of stuff there and that's just the Henry Ford, not Greenfield Village which I must admit I have not yet visited.
I once had seen that blue glue satelite with a new styling corn tape on. It grew in ration with its own bed. Then for a clear take we had to over rate them and sure staple their outwards. It became a new bend on the outskirts.
Sounds like the movie Citizen Kane may have been something of a bio on H.Ford
No, William Randolph Hearst.
I thought Rockefeller was the man who's life Citizens Kane was based on !
@@den264 You are very likely correct. When I watched it for the first time, it seemed fanatical in a consumerism-conscious sort of way....a guy gets rich in order to buy all he can...but really, what I got from it the second time seemed more clear and it seems its about the young boy's inability to obtain what toy made him feel complete, and as a result, went on throughout his entire adult life searching for what object could possibly bring him the exact same joyful feeling he had when he played with his rosebud sled. In the end, we all know we can't take any of it with us to the other side but we're always hopeful, aren't we?🤗
great narration guys
The International Jew is a four-volume set of booklets or pamphlets originally published and distributed in the early 1920s by the Dearborn Publishing Company, an outlet owned by Henry Ford, the American industrialist and automobile manufacturer.
The booklets were a collection of articles originally serialized in Ford's Dearborn Independent newspaper, beginning with The International Jew: The World's Problem, published on May 22, 1920.