Direction: John Ford
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by John Ford. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Mogambo
1953 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Clark Gable · Ava Gardner · Grace Kelly · Donald Sinden
Plot Clark Gable reprises his role as veteran big-game trapper and guide Vic Marswell in John Ford's remake of RED DUST, the actor's 1932 hit directed by Victor Fleming. After a...
7.2
9K votes
7.2
9K votes
Cheyenne Autumn
1964 · Movie · 160 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Richard Widmark · Carroll Baker · Karl Malden · Sal Mineo
Plot Cheyenne Indians flee their squalid Oklahoma reservation and return to their traditional homeland along the Yellowstone River in Wyoming. A U.S. cavalry officer gets the call to return the tribe...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
Rio Grande
1950 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast John Wayne · Maureen O'Hara · Ben Johnson · Chill Wills
Plot The concluding chapter to director John Ford's "Cavalry trilogy" that also included "Fort Apache" and "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" stars John Wayne as the hardened commander of a remote...
7.2
5K votes
7.2
5K votes
Tobacco Road
1941 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Charley Grapewin · Marjorie Rambeau · Gene Tierney · William Tracy
7.1
1K votes
7.1
1K votes
The Rising of the Moon
1957 · Movie · 81 min. · Ireland
Direction John Ford
Cast Tyrone Power · Maureen Connell · Eileen Crowe · Cyril Cusack
Plot 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 a very old-fashioned, traditional fellow...
7.1
943 votes
7.1
943 votes
Pilgrimage
1933 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Henrietta Crosman · Heather Angel · Norman Foster · Lucille La Verne
Plot Hannah Jessop (Henrietta Crosman) fears being abandoned by her son Jim (Norman Foster), and she doesn't approve of his romance with Mary Saunders (Marian Nixon). When Hannah discovers that Jim...
7.1
250 votes
7.1
250 votes
Wagon Master
1950 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Ben Johnson · Joanne Dru · Harry Carey Jr. · Ward Bond
Plot As Mormon settlers head to the promised land at the San Juan river in Utah, they hire horse traders Travis Blue and Sandy as wagon masters. They have to forge...
7.1
2K votes
7.1
2K votes
The Wings of Eagles
1957 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast John Wayne · Maureen O'Hara · Dan Dailey · Ward Bond
Plot A biography of Navy flier-turned-screenwriter Frank W. "Spig" Wead.
7.0
2K votes
7.0
2K votes
How the West Was Won
1962 · Movie · 164 min. · United States
Direction Henry Hathaway · John Ford · George Marshall · Richard Thorpe
Cast Carroll Baker · James Stewart · Debbie Reynolds · Gregory Peck
Plot The fifty years of American westward expansion between the 1830s and 1880s are viewed through the experiences of the Prescott and Rawlings families, as they migrate by the Erie Canal,...
7.0
5K votes
7.0
5K votes
The Prisoner of Shark Island
1936 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Warner Baxter · Gloria Stuart · Joyce Kay · Claude Gillingwater
Plot The story of Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was imprisoned after innocently treating President Lincoln's assassin in 1865.
7.0
693 votes
7.0
693 votes
The Long Gray Line
1955 · Movie · 138 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Tyrone Power · Maureen O'Hara · Ward Bond · Donald Crisp
Plot 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...
7.0
1K votes
7.0
1K votes
The Three Godfathers (3 Godfathers)
1948 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast John Wayne · Pedro Armendáriz · Harry Carey Jr. · Ward Bond
Plot 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...
6.9
2K votes
6.9
2K votes
Donovan's Reef
1963 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast John Wayne · Lee Marvin · Elizabeth Allen · Jack Warden
Plot A war veteran in the South Seas tries to salvage a buddy''s reputation when the man''s daughter comes calling.
6.9
4K votes
6.9
4K votes
The Whole Town's Talking
1935 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Edward G. Robinson · Jean Arthur · Arthur Hohl · Arthur Byron
Plot 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...
6.8
521 votes
6.8
521 votes
The Hurricane
1937 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction John Ford · Stuart Heisler
Cast Dorothy Lamour · Jon Hall · Mary Astor · C. Aubrey Smith
Plot In the days of the tall ships and colonial rule of the South Pacific, a naive native sailor working as first mate on an island hopping windjammer is unjustly jailed...
6.8
747 votes
6.8
747 votes
Drums Along the Mohawk
1939 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Claudette Colbert · Henry Fonda · Edna May Oliver · John Carradine
Plot In Revolutionary America, Gil Martin takes his new wife Lana back to his farm in upstate New York. The area is remote and a distance from the fort but they...
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes
Doctor Bull
1933 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Will Rogers · Vera Allen · Marian Nixon · Howard Lally
Plot Dr. Bull is an old-fashioned country doctor whose affair with the widow Janet Cardmaker is creating waves in the small town where he practices. When there is a mysterious outbreak...
6.8
243 votes
6.8
243 votes
The Lost Patrol
1934 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Victor McLaglen · Boris Karloff · Wallace Ford · Reginald Denny
Plot A World War I British Army patrol is crossing the Mesopotomian desert when their commanding officer, the only one who knows their destination is killed by the bullet of unseen...
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes
The Long Voyage Home
1940 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast John Wayne · Thomas Mitchell · Ian Hunter · Ward Bond
Plot Aboard the freighter Glencairn, the lives of the crew are lived out in fear, loneliness, suspicion and cameraderie. The men smuggle drink and women aboard, fight with each other, spy...
6.7
1K votes
6.7
1K votes
They Were Expendable
1945 · Movie · 136 min. · United States
Direction John Ford
Cast Robert Montgomery · John Wayne · Donna Reed · Ward Bond
Plot In the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the members of a PT boat squadron patrol Philippine waters and attack Japanese ships. The PT boat initially had little...
6.7
1K votes
6.7
1K votes