Filmmakers and historians discuss Ford's influence on moviemaking with personal and historical accounts of his life including: his relationship with Fox's studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck, how he helped launch Henry Fonda's career, his push to make the back-to-back Academy Award-winning films The Grapes Of Wrath and How Green Was My Valley, his time spent serving in World War II and the impact his service made on his post-war western films. With clips and back stories from some of his greatest films, Becoming John Ford shows Ford's unmatchable talent and how there was no greater eye behind the camera than John Ford.
