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John Ford Filmography

Name: John Ford Filmography
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Complete filmography of John Ford: 67 films in the TMDB catalog, sorted by year.

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Title↕	Year↕	Genres↕	TMDB Rating↕	Votes↕	Language↕	Overview↕
7 Women	1,965	Drama, History	6.5	71	English	In a mission in China in 1935, a group of women are preyed on by Mongolian bandits, led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan.
Cheyenne Autumn	1,964	Western	6.7	139	English	A reluctant cavalry Captain must track a defiant tribe of migrating Cheyenne.
Donovan's Reef	1,963	Adventure, Comedy, Romance	6.2	154	English	After her great aunt's death, a high-society woman arrives on a Hawaiian island in search of the heir - the father she has never met.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	1,962	Western	7.8	1,252	English	Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon saved Stoddard, then a lawyer, when he was roughed up by a crew of outlaws terrorizing the town, led by Liberty Valance. As the territory's safety hung in the balance, Doniphon and Stoddard, two of the only people standing up to him, proved to be very important, but different, foes to Valance.
How the West Was Won	1,962	Western	7	478	English	The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
Two Rode Together	1,961	Western	6.4	148	English	Two tough westerners bring home a group of settlers who have spent years as Comanche hostages.
Sergeant Rutledge	1,960	Western, Crime, Drama	7	134	English	Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.
The Horse Soldiers	1,959	Western, War	7	271	English	A Union Cavalry outfit is sent behind confederate lines in strength to destroy a rail supply center. Along with them is sent a doctor who causes instant antipathy between him and the commander. The secret plan for the mission is overheard by a southern belle who must be taken along to assure her silence.
The Last Hurrah	1,958	Drama	7.2	61	English	In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Frank Skeffington, a veteran and honest politician, mayor of a New England town, tries to be reelected while bankers and captains of industry conspire in the shadows to place a weak and manageable candidate in the city hall.
Gideon's Day	1,958	Crime, Drama, Comedy	6.4	30	English	Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of involvement in a payroll robbery and then helps break up a bank robbery.
The Wings of Eagles	1,957	Drama, War	6.2	66	English	The story of Frank W. "Spig" Wead - a Navy-flyer turned screenwriter.
The Rising of the Moon	1,957	Comedy, Drama	6.9	21	English	Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of the Law," a police officer must arrest an old-fashioned, traditional fellow for assault. The man's principles have the policeman and the whole village, including the man he slugged, sympathizing with him. "One Minute's Wait" is about a little train station and glimpses into the lives of the passengers, with a series of comic setups. The third piece, "1921," is about a condemned Irish nationalist and his daring escape.
The Searchers	1,956	Western	7.7	1,539	English	As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.
Mister Roberts	1,955	Comedy, Drama, War	7.1	168	English	Mr. Roberts is a Navy officer who's yearning for battle but is stuck in the backwaters of World War II on a non-commissioned ship run by the bullying Captain Morton.
The Long Gray Line	1,955	Comedy, Drama	7	56	English	The life story of a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, who becomes an Army Noncommissioned Officer and spends his 50 year career at the United States Military Academy at West Point. This includes his job-related experiences as well as his family life and the relationships he develops with young cadets with whom he befriends. Based on the life of a real person.
Mogambo	1,953	Adventure, Drama, Romance	6.4	169	English	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.
The Sun Shines Bright	1,953	Comedy, Drama	6.4	44	English	With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman, reliving his Civil War memories, and preventing the lynching of an African youth.
The Quiet Man	1,952	Romance, Comedy, Drama	7.3	595	English	An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.
What Price Glory	1,952	Drama, Comedy, Romance, War	5.5	20	English	Two military men, Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt, who are rivals to begin with, grow more at odds with each other when Quirt is made Flagg's top sergeant. And when a local beauty comes between them, their rivalry escalates even further. But when they discover that the woman has marriage in mind, they now compete to try to avoid marching down the aisle - that is, until they are called upon to march into battle.
Rio Grande	1,950	Western	6.8	380	English	Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against depredations of marauding Apaches. Col. Yorke is under considerable stress by a serious shortage of troops of his command. Tension is added when Yorke's son (whom he hasn't seen in fifteen years), Trooper Jeff Yorke, is one of 18 recruits sent to the regiment.
Wagon Master	1,950	Adventure, Western	6.7	150	English	Two young horse traders guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter rugged terrain, the cutthroat Clegg gang, hospitable Navajo, and moral challenges on the journey.
When Willie Comes Marching Home	1,950	Comedy, War	6.8	13	English	When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accidently behind enemy lines he unexpectedly becomes a hero after all.
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon	1,949	Drama, Western	6.9	394	English	On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.
Fort Apache	1,948	Western	7	397	English	Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.
3 Godfathers	1,948	Western	6.7	201	English	Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own lives.
The Fugitive	1,947	Drama	5.9	47	English	Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the state's last remaining priest.
My Darling Clementine	1,946	Western, Drama, Romance	7.4	470	English	Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of their brothers dead and their cattle stolen. They decide to take revenge on the culprits.
They Were Expendable	1,945	Drama, War	6.5	124	English	After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Ryan and his buddy Lt. Brickley are told they can finally take their squadron into battle. The PT boats quickly prove their worth, successfully shooting down Japanese planes, relaying messages between islands, and picking off a multitude of enemy ships.
Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines	1,943	Documentary, War	5.7	13	English	A training film for OSS agents who are to be dropped behind enemy lines.
The Battle of Midway	1,942	Documentary, War	5.8	78	English	The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, in 2006.
Sex Hygiene	1,942	Drama	4.9	12	English	Several servicemen relax by playing pool, but one of them goes off to spend time with a prostitute. Later, he discovers he has contracted a venereal disease. A graphic and frank presentation of the types and treatment of venereal disease follows. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2007.
How Green Was My Valley	1,941	Drama	7.3	442	English	Huw Morgan, the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, witnesses the tumultuous events of his young life during a period of rapid social change. At the dawn of the 20th-century, a miners' strike divides the Morgans: the sons demand improvements, and the father doesn't want to rock the boat.
Tobacco Road	1,941	Comedy, Drama	6.7	56	English	Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
The Grapes of Wrath	1,940	Drama	7.8	1,077	English	Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
The Long Voyage Home	1,940	Drama, War	6.6	95	English	The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.
Stagecoach	1,939	Western, Adventure	7.6	1,204	English	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.
Young Mr. Lincoln	1,939	Drama, History	7.2	186	English	In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.
Drums Along the Mohawk	1,939	Drama, History, War	6.5	123	English	Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that announce dark times of revolution and war.
Four Men and a Prayer	1,938	Adventure, Mystery	6.3	12	English	The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name.
The Hurricane	1,937	Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance	6.7	50	English	A Polynesian sailor is separated from his wife when he's unjustly imprisoned for defending himself against a colonial bully. Members of the community petition the governor for clemency but all pretense of law and order are soon shattered by an incoming tropical storm.
Wee Willie Winkie	1,937	Adventure, Family	6.6	33	English	In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army colonel paternal grandfather on the British outpost he commands in northern India.
The Prisoner of Shark Island	1,936	Drama, History	6.8	58	English	After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.
Mary of Scotland	1,936	Drama, History, Romance	6.2	38	English	The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.
The Plough and the Stars	1,936	Drama	5.8	16	English	A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army during the Easter rebellion.
The Informer	1,935	Crime, Drama	6.8	118	English	Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend. So when British authorities advertise a reward for information about his best friend, current IRA member Frankie, Gypo cooperates. Now Gypo can buy two tickets on a boat bound for the States, but can he escape the overwhelming guilt he feels for betraying his buddy?
The Whole Town's Talking	1,935	Comedy, Crime	6.8	58	English	Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.
Steamboat Round the Bend	1,935	Comedy, Drama, Romance	7.5	18	English	A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be hanged for murder.
The Lost Patrol	1,934	Action, War	6.5	74	English	A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotamian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination, is killed by the bullet of unseen bandits. The patrol's sergeant keeps them heading north on the assumption that they will hit their brigade. They stop for the night at an oasis and awaken the next morning to find their horses stolen, their sentry dead, the oasis surrounded and survival difficult.
Judge Priest	1,934	Comedy, Drama, Romance	6.4	34	English	Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, restores the justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky using his common sense and his great sense of humanity.
The World Moves On	1,934	Drama, History, Romance, War	5.6	15	English	Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to stand by each other in a belief that a great business firmly established in four countries will be able to withstand even such another calamity as the Napoleonic Wars from which Europe is slowly recovering. Then many years later, along comes World War One and the years that follow, to test the businesses.
Pilgrimage	1,933	Drama, War, Romance	6.9	17	English	A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.
Doctor Bull	1,933	Comedy, Drama	6.5	11	English	In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly regarded small-town physician who often prescribes a healthy dose of common sense! But when Bull begins dating a widow (Vera Allen), the local gossips misconstrue the story. To make matters worse, Bull's plainspoken manner earns him an enemy in the wealthy owner of a nearby construction camp. But once it's learned that the camp has caused illness by polluting the local water supply, the good doctor steps in to try to restore the town's health - and his reputation!
Flesh	1,932	Drama, Romance	5.6	13	English	Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.
Arrowsmith	1,931	Drama	6.6	29	English	A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
The Brat	1,931	Comedy	5.2	12	English	A society novelist brings a brash young chorus girl home in order to study her for inspiration for his new novel. His family is distraught, but soon her behavior has forever altered their snobbish ways.
Up the River	1,930	Comedy, Crime	5.8	27	English	Daily life at men and women's prison units where baseball and the marching band are serious business. Two prisoners escape in order to help paroled Steve from being blackmailed by his girlfriend's ex-partner-in-crime.
Born Reckless	1,930	Crime, Comedy, Drama, War, Romance	5.5	13	English	In order to use the publicity to get re-elected, a judge sentences a notorious gangster to fight in the war.
The Black Watch	1,929	Drama, Adventure, War	6	14	English	Captain Donald King is sent to India to carry out a secret mission while the Black Watch, his regiment, leaves for France at the outbreak of the First World War.
Four Sons	1,928	War, Drama	7.2	23	English	A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with L'Imaginne Ritrovato and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1999.
Hangman's House	1,928	Thriller, Drama, Romance	6.6	16	English	Forced by her mean-spirited father, Lord Chief Justice James O'Brien, to marry a man she doesn't love, Connaught O'Brien gives up hope of ever with her true love, Dermot McDermot. After her father dies and a hunted rebel leader returns to town, however, Connaught finds a renewed hope that the tides of oppression will shift and she might again find happiness. This silent romantic drama, set in Ireland, is the first film in which a then-unknown John Wayne is clearly visible.
Riley the Cop	1,928	Comedy	5.6	10	English	In this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a young man who stole money from a local bakery.
3 Bad Men	1,926	Romance, Western	6.8	46	English	Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.
The Iron Horse	1,925	Western, Drama, History, Romance	6.6	74	English	Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave 200 miles off the expected distance, but they are set upon by a party of Cheyenne. One of them, a white renegade with only two fingers on his right hand, kills Brandon and scalps him. Davy is all alone now.
Just Pals	1,920	Drama, Western	6.4	21	English	Bim seems to be his town's biggest loser, but when he takes a needy 13-year-old boy named Bill under his wing, it seems there may be some hope for Bim. After learning about Bill, a young teacher, Mary, whom Bim secretly adores, helps get the young boy into school. And when Bim then helps Mary repay a loan, defaulted on by shifty boyfriend, it becomes evident that Bim can reform. As the plot in this captivating film twist and turns, the stakes get higher, the action gets more intense and hope for Bim bounds upward.
Hell Bent	1,918	Western	5.3	11	English	A cowboy must save his girlfriend from captivity and then cross the desert on foot with a single waterhole on the way.
Bucking Broadway	1,917	Western, Romance	5.5	27	English	On a ranch in Wyoming, one of the cowboys, Cheyenne Harry (Harry Carey), falls in love with his boss's daughter. But she decides to elope to the city with Captain Thornton, a wealthy visitor to the ranch. She quickly discovers that life in the city is not what she expected. Cheyenne, devastated by the loss of his fiancée, decides to go to the city to find her, and in the end rescues her from the grips of Captain Thornton and from the extravagant and decadent way of life in the city.
Straight Shooting	1,917	Western	6	16	English	Cattleman Flint cuts off farmer Sims' water supply. When Sims' son Ted goes for water, one of Flint's men kills him. Cheyenne is sent to finish off Sims, but finding the family at the newly dug grave, he changes sides.

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