In the end, Ford's utopia failed. Fordlandia's residents, ever in hope their patriarch would someday visit their Midwestern industrial town in the middle of the jungle, gave up and left.

Excerpt: 'Fordlandia' Cape Cod cottages, red fire hydrants, swimming pools, and a golf course — the perfect village, built by Henry Ford, right in the heart of the the Amazon jungle of Brazil.

In 1927, Henry Ford invested $125,000 in a rubber tree farm, such as this one in Laos. The farm ran into trouble at every turn, including unreliable labor and poor farming techniques.ELLEN CHIU ...

Fordlândia, the Midwestern city that the pioneering automaker built in the middle of the Brazilian Amazon, has fallen into ruin.

“Fordlandia is an incredible true story, and we are thrilled to be working with Werner, one of the world’s most iconic filmmakers, and Chris, a truly exceptional writer,” Amritraj said.

"Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City " is Latin American historian Greg Grandin's account of the cities Ford, hoping to mass produce rubber for car tires, ...

fordlandia-sawmill. Ford was legendarily contemptuous of experts, but he could have saved some serious dough if he'd just hired a consultant to tell him that the plantation wasn't at all suitable ...

Henry Ford's failed industrial town in the Amazon Rainforest Fordlandia is the backdrop of of a supernatural Brazilian TV drama.

But Fordlandia’s sleek, modern hospital has since been destroyed. A 2012 fire destroyed much of its furniture, and in the aftermath, plunderers made away with materials containing lead and ...

EXCLUSIVE: Henry Ford’s failed industrial town in the Amazon rainforest is the backdrop of a supernatural Brazilian TV drama. Fordlândia — Battle Between Worlds is in development at Diosual ...

The series project, titled “Fordlandia,” is among the 10 series pitches to be presented at this week’s Iberseries & Platino Industria’s Co-Production and Financing Forum in Madrid. Related ...

Fordlandia isn't just the story of a plantation; it's a story about Ford's ego. As disaster after disaster struck, Ford continued to pour money into the project.