Henry Ford - The Dark Side of the American Dream Documentary

Henry Ford's life in a full documentary: the Model T, the moving assembly line, Ford Motor Company, Fordlandia and the antisemitic Dearborn Independent. A Michigan farm boy, Henry Ford completed his Quadricycle in 1896, founded the Ford Motor Company in 1903 and launched the Model T in 1908. Industrial production was transformed by the moving assembly line, introduced in 1913, and by the five-dollar day of 1914. There is a darker side too, and the documentary covers it: the antisemitic articles in his newspaper the Dearborn Independent, the Grand Cross of the German Eagle he received in 1938, the failed Fordlandia rubber plantation in the Amazon jungle, his opposition to unions, the death of his son Edsel in 1943 and his own death in 1947. Watch next Edison - America's Most Ruthless Inventor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGz7Mqe-_tA John D. Rockefeller - America's First Billionaire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN8prtqM35s Related playlists American Icons: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNwBhP0rWSz3TAJQE0LzpmFt3rIaiDuWS History's Richest People: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNwBhP0rWSz1jjaMQynzvY-Vmsu8nBUsL Great Inventors: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNwBhP0rWSz0j-LfgM0_tkLk2EpwbbP0v Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@PeopleProfiles?sub_confirmation=1 Our second channel, Dynastic Profiles: https://www.youtube.com/@Dynasticprofiles Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thepeopleprofiles Buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/peopleprofiles Every People Profiles documentary is written, narrated and edited by human beings, and all our scripts are checked for AI and plagiarism. All footage, images and music used in People Profiles videos are sourced from free media websites or are purchased with commercial rights from online media archives. People Profiles serial number: PP342 #HenryFord #AmericanHistory #PeopleProfiles