AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | JANUARY 2013

Henry Ford, a 2-hour film funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, explores the life of America’s pre-eminent businessman and one of the most influential Americans of the twentieth century. It tells the story of Ford’s role in the creation of the Model T, the durable and low-priced car that helped put America on wheels; the assembly line, which revolutionized the industrial world; and the Five Dollar Day, which laid the foundation for a prosperous American middle class. The film also examines Ford’s role in shifting the American understanding of “the pursuit of happiness” to embrace consumption, and as a master publicist who transformed the uses of celebrity. Henry Ford is written, produced, and directed by Sarah Colt and co-produced by Helen Dobrowski.

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