John Ford directed this "verdant" 1941 winner about a Welsh mining family
... unseen Best Picture Oscar winners, this sentimental John Ford 
directed opus of the goings-on in a large Welsh mining family has... [DOC] [TLE] Best Picture: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941) | Nerdist [PAR] May 22, 2014 ... How odd that John Ford's 1941 film How Green Was My Valley  a tragic story of 
the ... How Green Was My Valley tells the story of a coal mining town located in a 
verdant valley in Wales, and the Morgan family that lives therein.