The Men Who Built America(2012)
Overview
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.
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Top 10 Billed Cast
John D. Rockefeller
William Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt
J.P. Morgan (The Elder)
J.P Morgan (The Younger)
Andrew Carnegie (The Elder)
Henry Ford
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