Hi Skinny and Welcome to the forum.
I have the A& E documentary on video and I know it is available on Region 1 format in USA.
It is a very comprehensive documentary covering his life and and career. I wouldnt say it was controversial.
Other documentaries worth seeking out are the John Wayne Early and Later Years available on DVD. The early years concentrates on pre Stagecoach 1939 with lots of clips from B Westerns. The later years concentrates on Stagecoach to the end of his life and contains more rare footage that I not seen such as TV spots.
There is also an earlier John Wayne Anthology DVD which trys to cover everything. Its footage seems to come from public domain and trailers but it worth a look.
Couple & Duos is a French DVD which is four documentaries in which 1 1/2 hour
programme is on John Wayne & John Ford.
All the above are available on Ebay .
Rarer documentaries worth seeking out are the BBC TV Reputations programme which cover Duke's career and political views. Hollywood Greats with Jonathan Ross is another 45 minute BBC TV documentary which also covers John Wayne
life and career. It involves Duke's children and is much fairer than the Barry Norman programme form the late 1970's.
Hope this helps
Best
Mike
