This installment in A&E's Biography series follows the life of John Wayne from his troubled childhood to his peak as America's biggest box-office draw to his later years as a controversial conservative icon. Examined closely, Wayne's life is a startling series of contradictions. He was a member of his high school's Shakespeare club who began his career by acting in scores of B-grade Westerns, and though he avoided military service, he was considered an American hero. Filled with well-chosen archival stills, as well as seldom-seen early clips, this video also features interviews with fellow actors Charlton Heston and Ron Howard, as well as writer and scholar Garry Wills (author of a brilliant intellectual study of Wayne's work and life, John Wayne's America).

John Ford and John Wayne — a friendship and professional collaboration that spanned 50 years, changed each others’ lives, changed the movies, and in the process, changed the way America saw itself. It was a relationship that reflected all the elements and all the paradoxes of 20th century America — generosity of spirit, abuse of power, a sense of loyalty, and a restless nationalism that didn’t quite know what to do with itself.

This tribute to John Wayne features some of the greatest action scenes from various films

An intimate look at the life, diversity, challenges, and accomplishments of John Amos. He would go on to become the most memorable and respected African American Father Figure in American Television History.

A retrospective of the career of actor John Wayne, showing clips from many of his most famous films.

Profile of one of the world's most popular motion picture stars, told through interviews with some of the artists who worked with him, family, friends, and excerpts from many of his films and television appearances.

John Wayne was a legendary actor and an embodiment of America itself. While he played men who always do the right thing on camera his real life is far more complicated.

Documentary about the making of the John Wayne film The Alamo (1960). Included are behind-the-scenes photos and footage of the actual production of the film, clips from it and interviews with members of the cast, crew and local residents in Brackettville, TX, where it was filmed.

Film traces the career of the actor who embodied classic American values like no other - in his film and television roles as well as in his private life. In a career spanning more than 50 years, he became an icon of the western. The documentary follows Wayne from his first steps in the film business, when he was still honing his image as an upright hero, through his great successes to the end of his career, when even the US Congress bowed to his lifetime achievement and awarded him the Congressional Gold Medal. His colleague Maureen O'Hara, who stood in front of the camera with him in Rio Grande (1950), said that the medal should bear the following engraving to do justice to Duke: "John Wayne - American".

1. Made to Love 02. Open Your Eyes 03. Tonight (Best You Ever Had) 04. Used to Love U 05. Who Did That to You 06. Love in the Future (intro) 07. The Beginning... 08. Caught Up 09. Prelude/Get Lifted 10. Number One 11. Save Room 12. Hold On Longer 13. Save the Night 14. Tomorrow 15. Green Light 16. Dreams 17. Again 18. Dancing in the Dark 19. Ordinary People 20. Everybody Knows 21. You And I 22. Asylum 23. So High 24. All Of Me 25. Who Do We Think We Are