The Men Who Built America (2012)

TV Series · Documentary · 1 season · Rated 8.0/10 on TMDB · First aired October 16, 2012 · Ended

Overview

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.

Cast

• Tim Getman as John D. Rockefeller
• Michael Chmiel as William Vanderbilt
• David Donahoe as Cornelius Vanderbilt
• Ray Reynolds as J.P. Morgan (The Elder)
• Eric Rolland as J.P Morgan (The Younger)
• Adam Jonas Segaller as Andrew Carnegie (The Elder)
• AJ Achinger as Andrew Carnegie (The Younger)
• Alex Falberg as Nikola Tesla
• Cary Donaldson as Henry Ford
• Einar Gunn as George Westinghouse
• James Kidd as William Jennings Bryan
• Kenneth Cavett as Jim Fisk

Seasons

• Season 1 · 4 episodes · 2012

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