Crime that Amazon charges for this
This is an excellent documentary that I would recommend to anyone, but for Amazon to charge for something that PBS produced and offers for free on its website is a crime. http://video.pbs.org/video/2329934360/
A little slow and skips over some of the most important parts of his life
They completely left out his obsession with Thomas Edison. I watched this right after going to the Henry Ford Museum in Deerborn, MI and thought the video spent to much time on the relationship with his son (which is important) but missed a lot of the other things he did.
Pulse of a World Changer
This "American Experience" biographicial documentary is one of the best this PBS series has done in a long while. Staying with the motif of how Ford and his Model T changed the way people in America lived is the strong point to the central narrative. So is showing how Ford's Anti-Semitism was eventually forgiven when the auto titan met his end. Shakespeare was right: "The evil men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones." The stormy relationship with son Edsel is also dealt with effectively. I cannot wait until the promised treatment of John D. Rockefeller's life and world impact.
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