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The Men Who Built America
2012 · TV series · documentary · 120 min episodes · 1 season
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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It's not about the time period mentioned in the article, but I highly recommend the similarly-named "The Men Who Built America" documentary series. Really interesting (and inspiring) if you're interested in the industrial development of the US circa 1860-1930.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV3DmWNCEaI&list=PL-_k1uJcDMNdAkhdkHHBkFTqoWo8jFZRN
Einstein's Big Idea - E = mc2 - very inspiring and interesting documentary about MC2 formula and root of each element of equation. Even if you don't understand (like) physics this series explains Einstein and its discovery in cinematic way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROC8zSiw1x4
The Men Who Built America - pictured in the same way as documentary mentioned above. Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Astor, Ford and Morgan. Their names are part of history and synonymous with the American dream. These men transformed every industry they touched: oil, rail, steel, shipping, automobiles, and finance.
There is a big deal made of this in "The Men Who Built America" [1] which I started watching because it came up on Netflix. Maybe it is new there and people have started watching it
[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2167393/
The documentary series "The Men Who Built America" is a really well done overview of some of these guys.