A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

Director Martin Scorsese examines the struggle of an artist wishing to make a personal statement against the collaborative nature of films and the commercial pressures of the Hollywood moviemaking factory. Segments of this series are devoted to the director as storyteller, illusionist, smuggler, and iconoclast. Other filmmakers—including John Ford, Francis Ford Coppola, Billy Wilder, and Orson Welles—are seen in archival footage. (Part 1)