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The Men Who Built America
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Tim Getman
John D. Rockefeller
4 eps
Michael Chmiel
William Vanderbilt
4 eps
David Donahoe
Cornelius Vanderbilt
4 eps
Ray Reynolds
J.P. Morgan (The Elder)
4 eps
Eric Rolland
J.P Morgan (The Younger)
4 eps
Adam Jonas Segaller
Andrew Carnegie (The Elder)
4 eps
AJ Achinger
Andrew Carnegie (The Younger)
4 eps
Alex Falberg
Nikola Tesla
4 eps
Cary Donaldson
Henry Ford
4 eps
Einar Gunn
George Westinghouse
4 eps
James Kidd
William Jennings Bryan
4 eps
Kenneth Cavett
Jim Fisk
4 eps
Cameron McNary
Jay Gould
4 eps
Joseph Wiegand
Theodore Roosevelt
4 eps
Justin Morck
Thomas Edison
4 eps
John C. Bailey
Henry Clay Frick
4 eps
Daniel Odell
President William McKinley
4 eps
Daniel Martin Berkey
Junius Morgan
4 eps
John Keabler
Charles M Schwab
4 eps
Don Meehan Jr
Thomas Scott
4 eps
Campbell Scott
Self - Narrator (voice)
4 eps
H.W. Brands
Self - Historian
4 eps
Donny Deutsch
Self - Advertising Mogul
4 eps
Mark Cuban
Self - Owner Dallas Mavericks
4 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Men Who Built America actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Men Who Built America reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Emotional Weight.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The story
What it's about
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.
Where to watch
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