Most people know at least one John Ford movie. Even if you don't know that you know a John Ford movie you do. He's the director of classic westerns like The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and Stagecoach, and other classics like The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley, and my dad's favorite The Quiet Man. During World War II though, John Ford helped the United States Navy complete a series of short documentaries about the war. Perhaps the most famous one is "The Battle of Midway", which I've included below. Watch it. Its very good. The New York Times said: "For 18 tingling and harshly realistic minutes the spectator is plunged into the front line amid the thunder of exploding bombs, the angry whine of fighter planes locked in combat and the relentless bark of anti-aircraft guns aboard surface vessels."
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