American Experience
1988
6.5
The Men Who Built America
8.0
· 194 votes
2012
2h 0m
Ended
TV Show
Overview
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.
Cast
Tim Getman
Tim Getman
John D. Rockefeller
Michael Chmiel
William Vanderbilt
David Donahoe
David Donahoe
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Ray Reynolds
Ray Reynolds
J.P. Morgan (The Elder)
Eric Rolland
Eric Rolland
J.P Morgan (The Younger)
Adam Jonas...
Adam Jonas Segaller
Andrew Carnegie (The Elder)
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