The producers of the documentary movie Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music set out to focus on one of the leading lights of country music in the late 1960's. They were rewarded with a unique portrait of an artist who, by the time the documentary was screened, was arguably as famous and as popular as any singer in America. The film - first shown in Britain on cinema screens, rather than TV - was shot over slightly less than a year. The shooting covered the period between the mixing sessions for 'Land Of Israel', a track from Cash's spiritual LP 'The Holy Land', in the final weeks of 1968 to the Country Music Association awards ceremony in the early autumn of 1969.