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American miniseries docudrama

The Men Who Built America (also known as The Innovators: The Men Who Built America in some international markets) is an eight-hour, four-part miniseriesdocudrama which was originally broadcast on the History Channel in autumn , and on the History Channel UK in fall The series focuses on the lives of Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D.

Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J. P. Morgan, and Henry Ford. It tells 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 million total viewers ( million adults 25–54 and 1 million adults 18–49) across four nights.

It is the first installment of the That Built franchise.

John d rockefeller biography youtube spencer jones By the time their descendants immigrated to North America, their name had taken German form. David C. These contemporaries include his former competitors, many of whom were driven to ruin, but many others of whom sold out at a profit or a profitable stake in Standard Oil, as Rockefeller often offered his shares as payment for a business , and quite a few of whom became very wealthy as managers as well as owners in Standard Oil. Encyclopedia Britannica.

Cast

In alphabetical order:

Episodes

Note: The series consists of eight one-hour episodes; for TV they were combined into four two-hour episodes.

Reception

Neil Genzlinger from The New York Times observed that the series did not contain startling revelations about its principal subjects, although certainly gave them a modern-day relevance.^[3]

Linda Holmes writing for NPR ridiculed the series for dull presentation, corny re-enactments and ineffective narration.

She criticized the production for feeling "a lot like a tricked-out version of an elementary school filmstrip" and suggested that the series might be popular among those who accepted Donald Trump as one of the experts.^[4]

Geoff Berkshire from Variety criticized the series for "overblown recreations backed by bombastic music, combined with tepid performances by the re-enactors and rudimentary writing".

Mentioning the series' "ostentatious style [that] begins to grate within the first 30 minutes", he scorned "the talking heads [that] simply feel like filler" and the particular style of padding out the runtime when "the viewers are subjected to the customary recap of the previous segment after every ad break." He concluded that unlike the game-changing icons it intended to celebrate, the series failed to leave its mark.^[5]

Verne Gay from NewsdayOn another hand, he praised the well-produced, although often static, recreations.^[6]

On Metacritic the series has a score of 60 out of , based on 4 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[7] Most fans of the series found it very informative and entertaining, with high production value.

The DVD got rave reviews, although many viewers wished that the constant recaps of each episode had been edited out.

John d rockefeller biography youtube spencer Standard Oil adapted by developing a European presence, expanding into natural gas production in the U. The Plain Dealer. He complained that he could not stay asleep most nights. He and Carnegie gave form and impetus through their charities to the work of Abraham Flexner , who in his essay "Medical Education in America" emphatically endowed empiricism as the basis for the US medical system of the 20th century.

Home media release

The miniseries has been released by The History Channel on January 22, , in a three-disc set in both DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats.^[8]

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