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.
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- EN
- First aired
- October 16, 2012
- Last aired
- November 11, 2012
- Seasons
- 1
- Episodes
- 4
Season 1
Episodes
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Featuring
Cast & crew
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
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