The Men Who Built America (Season 1)

The Men Who Built America (2012) is a History Channel docudrama miniseries you can watch online on iFILM. It mixes dramatized reenactments with commentary from historians and present-day business leaders.

The story spans the decades after the Civil War, when a battered country was looking for something to lift it back up. Five operators rebuilt its economy: Cornelius Vanderbilt laid down the railroads, John D. Rockefeller cornered oil, Andrew Carnegie bet everything on steel, John Pierpont Morgan tied finance and electricity to himself, and Henry Ford put the nation behind the wheel. Their alliances, price wars and personal grudges decided the fate of millions of workers.

The series shows the underside of the American dream, with no gloss over the ruthless tactics, strikes and cutthroat competition. It is built for anyone who loves stories about money, power and enormous risk, and who wants to grasp how a handful of personalities shaped a whole country. Stream every episode of The Men Who Built America (2012) online on iFILM.