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TV series

The Men Who Built America

2012 · TV-PG · 1 season · 4 episodes

8.1

TMDB audience score
196 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

About 8h to watch every episode. An estimate: 4 episodes at the typical episode runtime of 120 minutes.

Where to watch

Official options in the United States:

Subscription

  • Amazon Prime Video
  • Disney Plus
  • Hulu
  • HISTORY Vault Apple TV channel
  • HISTORY Vault Amazon Channel
  • Amazon Prime Video with Ads
  • History
  • Thirteen

Free

  • Hoopla

Free with ads

  • The Roku Channel
  • Tubi TV
  • KQED

Buy

  • Amazon Video
  • Apple TV Store
  • Google Play Movies
  • Fandango At Home

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Trailer

Play trailer: The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen I New Docuseries Premieres Wed. March 7 at 9/8c |

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Main cast

  • Tim Getman
    John D. Rockefeller
    4 episodes

  • Michael Chmiel
    William Vanderbilt
    4 episodes

  • David Donahoe
    Cornelius Vanderbilt
    4 episodes

  • Ray Reynolds
    J.P. Morgan (The Elder)
    4 episodes

  • Eric Rolland
    J.P Morgan (The Younger)
    4 episodes

  • Adam Jonas Segaller
    Andrew Carnegie (The Elder)
    4 episodes

  • AJ Achinger
    Andrew Carnegie (The Younger)
    4 episodes

  • Alex Falberg
    Nikola Tesla
    4 episodes

  • Cary Donaldson
    Henry Ford
    4 episodes

  • Einar Gunn
    George Westinghouse
    4 episodes

  • James Kidd
    William Jennings Bryan
    4 episodes

  • Kenneth Cavett
    Jim Fisk
    4 episodes

  • Cameron McNary
    Jay Gould
    4 episodes

  • Joseph Wiegand
    Theodore Roosevelt
    4 episodes

  • Justin Morck
    Thomas Edison
    4 episodes

  • John C. Bailey
    Henry Clay Frick
    4 episodes

  • Daniel Odell
    President William McKinley
    4 episodes

  • Daniel Martin Berkey
    Junius Morgan
    4 episodes

Seasons