How Green Was My Valley
1941
Academy Award for Best Picture — 14th Academy Awards
- Director:
- John Ford
- Studio:
- 20th Century-Fox
- Starring:
- Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Donald Crisp, Anna Lee, Roddy McDowall
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Told through the memories of youngest son Huw, the film follows the Morgan family, Welsh coal miners in a tight-knit valley community, as industrial decline, labor strikes, and tragedy in the mines gradually erode the close bonds and traditions that once defined their lives. Huw's father and brothers clash over unionization even as the family weathers personal loss, romance, and the slow disappearance of the valley's beauty to mining slag. John Ford's elegiac drama mourns a vanishing way of life through one boy's nostalgic, bittersweet coming of age.