CinemaOSMovie · 2018 · 1h 53m

The Gilded Age

Gilded is not golden

80%(2)Documentary

In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, the population of the United States doubled in the span of a single generation. As national wealth expanded, two classes rose simultaneously, separated by a gulf of experience and circumstance that was unprecedented in American life. These disparities sparked passionate and violent debate over questions still being asked in our own times: How is wealth best distributed, and by what process? Does government exist to protect private property or provide balm to the inevitable casualties of a churning industrial system? The outcome of these disputes was both uncertain and momentous, and marked by a passionate vitriol and level of violence that would shock the conscience of many Americans today.

Directed bySarah Colt

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 53m
Language
EN
Released
February 6, 2018
Studios
GBHPBS American Experience

Featuring

Cast & crew

1 credited
Starring
Oliver Platt

Oliver Platt

Self - Narrator (voice)

Creative team
Directed by
Sarah Colt
Written by
Mark Zwonitzer
Produced by
Helen Ryan Dobrowski
Sarah Colt

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