The Men Who Built America 2012
- Documentary
- 120 min episodes
- 1 season
- 4 episodes
- Ended
- TV-PG
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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Cast
- Tim GetmanJohn D. Rockefeller
- Michael ChmielWilliam Vanderbilt
- David DonahoeCornelius Vanderbilt
- Ray ReynoldsJ.P. Morgan (The Elder)
- Eric RollandJ.P Morgan (The Younger)
- Adam Jonas SegallerAndrew Carnegie (The Elder)
- AJ AchingerAndrew Carnegie (The Younger)
- Alex FalbergNikola Tesla
- Cary DonaldsonHenry Ford
- Einar GunnGeorge Westinghouse
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Seasons
- Season 14 eps · 2012
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