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Starring David Donahoe, Matt Boliek, Adam Jonas Segaller, Cary Donaldson, John C. Bailey, Eric Rolland, Justin Morck Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography For Nonfiction Programming Writers Stephen David, Patrick Reams, Randy Counsman, David C. White, Ed Fields, Keith Palmer Similar America: The Story of Us, The World Wars, The Century: America's, 10 Days That Unexpect, Legends & Lies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Men Who Built America (also known as The Innovators: The Men Who Built America in some international markets) is a six-hour, four-part miniseries docudrama which was originally broadcast on the History Channel in the Fall of 2012, and on the History Channel UK in Spring of 2013. The series focuses on the lives of Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J. P. Morgan and Henry Ford and how their industrial innovations and business empires revolutionized modern society. The series is directed by Patrick Reams and Ruán Magan and is narrated by Campbell Scott. It averaged 2.6 million total viewers (1.2 million adults 25–54 and 1 million adults 18–49) across 4 nights.
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Cast
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Episodes
Note: The series consists of eight one-hour episodes; for TV they were combined into four two-hour episodes.
Home media release
The miniseries has been released by The History Channel on January 22, 2013, in a three-disc set in both DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats.