TV-PGSeason 1
Synopsis
The Men Who Built America (2012), Season 1 is a History Channel documentary you can watch online on iFILM — four episodes on how a handful of entrepreneurs hauled a war-ravaged United States into becoming an economic superpower.
The season covers roughly fifty years of breakneck growth. Cornelius Vanderbilt bets on railroads over steamships and stitches the country into a single market. Then come Rockefeller's oil and Carnegie's steel, the metal whole cities are literally raised on. JP Morgan steps in next, using finance to push the pace even harder, and electricity finishes reshaping the face of the nation. Every episode is both a breakthrough and a brawl — over markets, over prices, over control of entire industries.
The format is docudrama: staged reenactments threaded with commentary from historians, politicians, and business leaders. The show doesn't hide the other side of these titans, the so-called robber barons. Stream The Men Who Built America Season 1 online on iFILM.
4 episodes
S1·E1A New War Begins
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.
S1·E2Bloody Battles
As it recovers from the Civil War, America undertakes the largest building phase of the country's history. While much of the growth is driven by railroads and oil, it's built using steel.
S1·E3Changing the Game
The steel and oil have forever changed the face of America, but they are just the beginning. JP Morgan arrives on the scene and expedites growth through finance.
S1·E4When One Ends, Another Begins
Railroads, oil, steel and electricity have all been harnessed in less than 50 years, but the face of America is changing and will never be the same.
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