The Men Who Built America

★ 8.1•2012•1 Seasons•ANIME

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.

Top 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

Episodes

Season:

1. A New War Begins

120m

As the nation attempts to rebuild following the destruction of the Civil War, Cornelius Vanderbilt is the first to see the need for unity to regain America’s stature in the world. He sells his shipping empire to invest everything in the railroads, knowing they’re the best chance for uniting East and West as never before.

Aired: 10/16/2012