The Men Who Built America
20121 season · 4 epEndedTV-PG
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.
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The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen I New Docuseries Premieres Wed. March 7 at 9/8c | History
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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
John C. Bailey
Henry Clay Frick
Daniel Odell
President William McKinley
Daniel Martin Berkey
Junius Morgan
John Keabler
Charles M Schwab
Don Meehan Jr
Thomas Scott
Episodes
Ended
1. A New War Begins
Oct 16, 2012 5.5
2. Bloody Battles
Oct 23, 2012 7.7
3. Changing the Game
Oct 30, 2012 7.7
4. When One Ends, Another Begins
Nov 11, 2012 8.7
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