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The Men Who Built America

PRIMETIME EMMYS® 2X winner
Season 1
Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Astor, Ford and Morgan. Their names are part of history and synonymous with the American dream. These men transformed every industry they touched: oil, rail, steel, shipping, automobiles, and finance.
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  1. S1 E1 - A New War Begins

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    October 15, 2012
    1 h 20 min
    TV-PG
    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.
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  2. S1 E2 - Oil Strike

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    October 15, 2012
    44min
    7+
    Kerosene is lighting America after dark in unprecedented ways. The demand for oil is sky high and Vanderbilt knows that oil can fill his trains.
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  3. S1 E3 - A Rivalry Is Born

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    October 29, 2012
    44min
    TV-PG
    Andrew Carnegie immigrates to the United States with his parents and starts working at age 12. He finds a patron in railroad executive Tom Scott who teaches him about the business.
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  4. S1 E4 - Blood Is Spilled

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    November 5, 2012
    48min
    TV-PG
    Carnegie hires a hatchet man, Henry Frick, to help him achieve his goal of besting Rockefellar. The partnership seems promising, but Carnegie does not know that Frick is running his factories far beyond capacity.
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  5. S1 E5 - A New Rival Emerges

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    October 15, 2012
    44min
    TV-PG
    While Carnegie and Rockefeller continue to battle, JP Morgan arrives on the scene and establishes a bank in New York City that has one goal: to further the technological advancements of America.
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  6. S1 E6 - Owning It All

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    October 22, 2012
    44min
    13+
    With an investment from Morgan, the Edison Electric Company is created and begins wiring homes in New York. A rival, Nikola Tesla, soon emerges with a different technology for electric light.
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  7. S1 E7 - Taking the White House

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    October 29, 2012
    46min
    TV-PG
    Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan have gone unmonitored for decades, but American politicians are about to change that.
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  8. S1 E8 - The New Machine

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    November 5, 2012
    43min
    TV-PG
    A young engineer named Henry Ford devises the plan for a gas-powered car. McKinley is assassinated and his VP Theodore Roosevelt takes office and quickly passes a series of regulations increasing oversight of American business.
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Directors

Ruan Magan

Producers

Glenn Allen

Cast

Matt BoliekJohn C. Bailey

Studio

A+E Networks
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