The Men Who Built America (2012)
Miniseries shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers, and believers whose feats transformed the United States, a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological superpower the world had ever seen. The story of a nation at the crossroads and of the people who catapulted it to prosperity.
John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, and J.P. Morgan rose from obscurity and built modern America. Their names hang on street signs, are etched into buildings, and are a part of the fabric of history. These men created the American Dream and were the engine of capitalism as they transformed everything they touched in building the oil, rail, steel, shipping, automobile, and finance industries. Their paths repeatedly crossed as they elected presidents, set economic policies, and influenced major events of the 50 most formative years this country has ever known. From the Civil War to the Great Depression and World War I, they led the way. Using state of the art computer-generated imagery that incorporates 12 million historical negatives, many made available for the first time by the Library of Congress, this series will bring back to life the world they knew and the one they created. The event series will show how these men took a failed experiment in democracy and created the greatest superpower the world has ever seen. We see how their historic achievements came to make the America of today.
Recent Episodes
Episode | Name | Airdate |
---|---|---|
S01E04 | When One Ends, Another Begins | nov. 11, 2012 |
S01E03 | Changing the Game | oct. 30, 2012 |
S01E02 | Bloody Battles | oct. 23, 2012 |
S01E01 | A New War Begins | oct. 16, 2012 |
Cast
Cary Donaldson
Don Meehan
Adam Jonas Segaller
Tim Getman
David Donahoe
John C. Bailey
Eric Rolland
Characters
Henry Ford
Thomas A. Scott
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Henry Frick
JP Morgan
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