The Men Who Built America
2012•TV-PG•1 Seasons•4 Episodes•8.0•Ended
Documentary
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 Men Who Built America is the story of a nation at the crossroads and of the people who catapulted it to prosperity.
Network
History
Origin
US
Cast
Tim Getman
John D. Rockefeller
Michael Chmiel
William Vanderbilt
David Donahoe
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Ray Reynolds
J.P. Morgan (The Elder)
Eric Rolland
J.P Morgan (The Younger)
Adam Jonas Segaller
Andrew Carnegie (The Elder)
AJ Achinger
Andrew Carnegie (The Younger)
Alex Falberg
Nikola Tesla
Cary Donaldson
Henry Ford
Einar Gunn
George Westinghouse
James Kidd
William Jennings Bryan
Kenneth Cavett
Jim Fisk
Cameron McNary
Jay Gould
Joseph Wiegand
Theodore Roosevelt
Justin Morck
Thomas Edison
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