“It is that rare film that is both profoundly educational, and utterly absorbing.”
David Gottlieb | Director of Jewish Studies | Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership
The maker of the Model-T was a dealer in lies.
In the 1920’s, Henry Ford published a series of inflammatory articles in his weekly newspaper, The Dearborn Independent. Blaming Jews for everything from WWI and economic depression to short skirts and the corrupting influence of Jazz, Ford’s publications quickly spread around the world — and to Germany, where they became enormously popular. Adolf Hitler praised Ford as “the leader of our fascist movement in America,” and awarded him a medal. Manufacturing Hate investigates the iconic automaker’s often sanitized place in American History, and reveals disturbing parallels between the Age of Ford, and our world today.
“The film stimulated a wide-ranging discussion among a packed audience of students and faculty.”
Angela Dillard | Chair, Department of History | University of Michigan
A headline from Henry Ford’s newspaper, The Dearborn Independent. Like the white nationalists of our own time, Ford spread the conspiracy theory that a “cabal” of Jews was plotting to destroy America by replacing “native born” Americans with immigrants.
A carefully researched combination of historical fact and poetic imagining, this innovative documentary-drama seeks out the roots of the present in the past.
Actor John Lepard as the ghost of Henry Ford in Manufacturing Hate: 10 Questions for Henry Ford.