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I still own my 1926 Ford model T roadster Pickup had it for 26 years so far.
Does that mean it's 1952?
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.
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.
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.
There is a reason we have PBS watch this Doc for just 1 of them, Thank you PBS
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 .
@@GODS-PUNISHERat this point i wish we were done with this topic - but unfortunately the actual reality continues.
I so enjoy PBS documentaries.
Recently I went to Same ford plant in Detroit where he stated and now Ford has huge museum , It was a goosebump moments...LEGEND
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?
And his Jew hating, Nazi loving Antisemitism ?
You should go visit his old house in Dearborn it’s fascinating.
This is the kind of tv show I want to watch
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.
He was right about everything.
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 enjoyed watching this documentary. Many thanks! Very interesting story and very professionally made movie.
great man and he got it right on all counts.....
....I don’t think so❤
@@bruceshearer1719 agree!
Wow What a history lesson and using all that wonderfull original footage to tell the story thanks
The archive footages that accompany the impeccable narration makes this that much more compelling….wonderful doc PBS America….
One of our hero. Way ahead of your time dear sir. Hope yo see more of you in this generation... God Willing
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.
Many thanks for this wonderful documentary. He is the man. Never perfect!
nobody's perfect. respect legends, learn from them, but don't worship them so we won't repeat the same mistake. great documentary!!!!!!
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.
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.
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"!❤
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.
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?
Very respectable! Thank you for this production😊
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.
A well-detailed documentary. Thank you for sharing.
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.
So old Henry actually turned into the very kind of person young Henry couldn't stand.
A JEW ?
@@sydmccreath4554 lol
@@sydmccreath4554 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.
@@sydmccreath4554 Sssh. Don't say it out loud
How does one TURN INTO A JEW ? PFFFFFF !!
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.
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
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.
one of the smartest man in human history
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!
Background score of this Video is so amazing
Wonderful documentary - thank you
Wow! This was some high quality stuff. Thank you! Very interesting and very well made ❤
Henry Ford is genius by all means 😊 I love American people
What a great documentary.
Wow, what a riveting story. Thanks
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.
tks for this documentary!
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 for president ...today !
This must be the most well put together documentary I've seen . Well done
Haven’t seen many then…
@@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
Wow congrats galing naman so great inspired to you'
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
Another great doc!
If only they told the WHOLE truth
Great job PBS. Thanks guys good documentary
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.
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
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!
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.
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
This reminds me of one of my dearest friends and mentors Bill Beckie
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!
Nice doco, very informative.
A very well-done documentary. Thanks for the creators.
He did well but authoritarian which is a contrast of what he wanted
Thank you
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.
Great docu ...
Inspiring!
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.
Determination!!! 💥
A great man that changed the world but refused to accept change around him
@@Kodakcompactdisc Riiiight
One of most respected technocrat, businessman
senza ombra di dubbio il numero uno henry Ford
great narration guys
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.
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.
Great story telling
My grandfather knew the Fords. I have photos of him with the Ford family. I never knew the history until now
Brilliant documentary. Very sad about his son and the internal stress he suffered
What a fantastic documentary
Hey Mate. You are great at what you do. Keep it up. I love your videos.
Do you even know what pbs is?
@@SuperDirk1965 Yes, it's a shitty biased, lefty yank television network.
@@SuperDirk1965 I don't, but after seeing & hearing their cunning, lies, deceit & propaganda sprinkled throughout this little presentation & reading some of their names I recon I can work it out. . . Little hats.
Outstanding 🦘🌏😎👍
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
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.
Visionario y revolucionario de todos los tiempos, grande Henry Ford!
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.🖤🇨🇦
He was a Jew hating Nazi and he hugely admired Adolf Hitler and the Nazi rule of Germany. He even gave Adolf and the Nazis large sums of money in support. Ford was a criminal and an execrable example of a human. Millions would happily take a shit on his grave, as would I, he was a piece of scum that ought to have been hanged.
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!
LEGEND!
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. 😂
Well Done PBS
What does Lee van Cleef on 40:28? Never knew he worked on the Ford plant.
Great Tv series!
Nice documentary.
Good old Henry certainly proved war being good for business to be correct
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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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.
No
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.
What a top video
he's alien level
Vivat For Mr H. Ford !
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!
Good job bud keep it up
TRUE LEGEND.
A very flawed one...