The Men Who Built America
First aired
October 16, 2012
Ended
Avg. episode: 120m
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
- TG
Tim Getman
John D. Rockefeller
Michael Chmiel
William Vanderbilt
- DD
David Donahoe
Cornelius Vanderbilt
- RR
Ray Reynolds
J.P. Morgan (The Elder)
- ER
Eric Rolland
J.P Morgan (The Younger)
- AS
Adam Jonas Segaller
Andrew Carnegie (The Elder)
AJ Achinger
Andrew Carnegie (The Younger)
Alex Falberg
Nikola Tesla
- CD
Cary Donaldson
Henry Ford
Einar Gunn
George Westinghouse
- JK
James Kidd
William Jennings Bryan
- KC
Kenneth Cavett
Jim Fisk
- CM
Cameron McNary
Jay Gould
- JW
Joseph Wiegand
Theodore Roosevelt
Justin Morck
Thomas Edison
John C. Bailey
Henry Clay Frick
- DO
Daniel Odell
President William McKinley
Daniel Martin Berkey
Junius Morgan
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