Should you watch The Men Who Built America?
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The Men Who Built America
Documentary · 2012
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.
The sides of The Men Who Built America
- Vanderbilt, Rockefeller and Carnegie
- Railroads, oil and steel
- Reenactments of tycoons at war
The Men Who Built America is good for you if…
- you like America after the Civil War becoming an industrial power.
- you like rivals fighting over money and monopolies.
- you like real people played by actors in dramatised scenes.
The Men Who Built America is bad for you if…
- you roll your eyes at grand narration about great men.
- you'd rather not commit to a miniseries over several nights.
About: ambition · money · progress
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