Question: Do both films Roam Sweet Home and Chesty: A Tribute To A Legend have the directors that share the same nationality?

It was filmed in 1970, but not released until 1976, three years after Ford's death. Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend is a documentary directed by John Ford and narrated by John Wayne. It was the final film directed by John Ford. <SEP> He is renowned both for Westerns such as" Stagecoach"( 1939)," The Searchers"( 1956), and" The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"( 1962), as well as adaptations of classic 20th- century American novels such as the film" The Grapes of Wrath"( 1940). John Ford( February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973) was an American film director. His four Academy Awards for Best Director( in 1935, 1940, 1941, and 1952) remain a record. One of the films for which he won the award," How Green Was My Valley", also won Best Picture. In a career that spanned more than 50 years, Ford directed more than 140 films( although most of his silent films are now lost) and he is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers of his generation. Ford's work was held in high regard by his colleagues, with Orson Welles and Ingmar Bergman among those who have named him one of the greatest directors of all time. Ford made frequent use of location shooting and long shots, in which his characters were framed against a vast, harsh, and rugged natural terrain. <SEP> In road- trip style, it follows the lives of retirees who live on the road full- time in trailers, due to economic necessity, pleasure, or both. Roam Sweet Home is a 1996 American documentary film directed by Ellen Spiro. <SEP> Home Sweet Home is a 1917 British silent film directed by Wilfred Noy. <SEP> Sweet Home Township is an inactive township in Clark County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. Sweet Home Township took its name from the now extinct town of Sweet Home, which was founded in the early 1830s. <SEP> She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow, a two- time Rockefeller Fellow, and an Emmy Award winner. She won the National Board of Review's Best Documentary award. She was short- listed for an Academy Award in the category of Best Long Form Documentary and Producer's Guild Best Documentary award nominee. Spiro is known for making humorous social issue films for national and international television broadcasts( HBO, PBS, Sundance, BBC) and theatrical release. In 2010 Spiro directed a nationally broadcast NOW on PBS special Fixing the Future with on- camera host David Brancaccio who visits communities across America using innovative approaches to confront economic crisis with new and sustainable models. Spiro directed a series of short animated films on" How the New Economy Works". In 2014 Spiro co- directed a feature adaptation of Fixing the Future which was theatrically released in over 50 cities. In 2007 she released" Body of War"( co- directed and co-produced with Phil Donahue), which was short- listed for an Academy Award for Best Documentary and won Best Documentary of 2007 by the National Board of Review. Spiro directed a music video," No More", an original song by Eddie Vedder that he wrote for Body of War. " No More" was released by Warner Brothers Music, broadcast on MTV and VH1 and viewed over a million times online. Spiro also co-produced the called featuring songs by Eddie Vedder, Ben Harper, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Bright Eyes, Neil Young, Lupe Fiasco, Serj Tankian and Kimya Dawson. The album artwork was created by Shepard Fairy and profits from the album were donated to the Iraq Veterans Against the War. Body of War premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival where it won an audience award and garnered a standing ovation. Eddie Vedder joined Ellen Spiro, Phil Donahue, Tomas Young and Cathy Smith onstage and performed a set of acoustic solo songs to a wildly cheering audience. Spiro and Donahue were featured on a one- hour" Bill Moyers Journal" special discussing the film. Additionally, Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue received a 2007 nomination for Best Documentary from the Producers Guild of America. Spiro's other award- winning films have been shown broadcast on television worldwide on Public Broadcasting Service| PBS, HBO, BBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation| CBC and NHK and in the art world, including multiple screenings at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum Biennial exhibition. Spiro was awarded The Foundation of American Women in Radio and Television ’s Gracie Award for Outstanding Director and Outstanding Documentary for Troop 1500, and is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Jerome Foundation Fellowship, a commendation from the Texas State Legislature( Senate Resolution 545) and is a two- time Rockefeller Fellowship recipient. Her works are housed in the permanent collections of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles, the UCLA Film and Television Archive, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Peabody Collection of The Paley Center for Media and the New York Public Library. Spiro is Professor Emerita at the University of Texas at Austin Department of Radio- Television- Film where she taught graduate and undergraduate courses in documentary, experimental film and music film production. Ellen Spiro is an American documentary filmmaker. She is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of CA at Berkeley.