The Men Who Built America

APPROPIATE

2012 / 1 temporadas

Rating8

Genres

Documentary

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.

Directors

Actors

Campbell Scott

Daniel Martin Berkey

Mark Cuban

Don Meehan Jr

John C. Bailey

Michael Chmiel

Justin Morck

AJ Achinger

H.W. Brands

John Keabler

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