John Ford's last western film, Cheyenne Autumn was allegedly produced to compensate for the hundreds of Native Americans who had bitten the dust in Ford's earlier films (that was the director's story, ...

In your article about the terrific WideScreen Film Festival and the presentation of John Ford’s “Cheyenne Autumn” (1964), the usual reference is made concerning the reason why the great director made ...

For nearly the entire history of the Western, director John Ford has been considered one of the greatest filmmakers in the genre. Films like The Searchers, Stagecoach, How the West Was Won, and My ...

Directed by John Ford and featuring an insanely star-studded cast, "Cheyenne Autumn" premiered on Oct. 3, 1964. It tells the story of the Cheyenne tribe's journey to its ancestral home. The last ...

September 1878: The last surviving Cheyenne, after their surrender, decide to escape back to their homeland, 1,800 miles away. However, the whites, under Captain Archer's command, are determined to ...

Structured as a complementary social and historical companion piece to John Ford's final western Cheyenne Autumn (1964), this documentary short intersperses clips from the big-screen epic with ...