PlatinumRead Just so...so bad

Holstra Boring, long, and too preachy.

Borgarkeri A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

KLS8800 I home-school my daughter and used this series to expand on this era of time in American History.Traditional schools just touch on these men. I wanted her to get the idea of who they really were, how driven they were and how visionary they had to be to achieve such greatness.Now that we are done with the series, we both feel more informed, and we will miss The Men Who Built America in both spirit and history.Side note: Great acting by all in the series, they brought their roles to life and gave them personality and depth.

sleepyhat A big disclaimer missing from this film, that is "Based on true events". It gives wrong impression to audiences who are familiar with the history of the underlying intent for inserting erroneous info. Is it just bad info? Or is there an alternate motive to feed wrong info to audiences not intimate with history judging from the remarks made by the modern influential men?Since this film was distributed via History Channel, the inaccurate info take away 5 points. If it was simply someone's attempt to make drama based on true events, this score would have been higher.This film cannot even be regarded as historical documentary. At best, a recount of PERSONAL perspectives, understanding and ideals of some history. It would probably be more enjoyable if it tried to learn from Elon Musk version of MARS TV show.However, if the intent is to spread personal view, belief and agenda into audiences who don't care much about history, this may be the piece to create alternate reality for them.

Chutuo Piyeu-mi President of the United States is an honorary title! If that is the case, who really runs the country? In an area where lines are no longer been drawn between fact and fiction,this show proved rather enlightening: This resonates hugely with me just a few years after Wall Street wrecked the US economy and was rewarded for that with taxpayers bail out money. If the president has no power, I will then speculate that the bankers do. I had studied the industrial revolution back in HS but this seemed a lot like the course they should have thought. As someone points out, there was no woman in the piece and the whole slavery drama seemed such a distant reality one had to to wonder if the slave trade had any impact in the making of the America I have come to know. If there is any element of fact in all of this, much of the conspiracy theories I have swallowed since Sept 11 2001 are founded. The rich and powerful are definitely above the law and democracy, in indeed so very overrated. The capital rules!

MartinHafer I enjoyed watching "The Men Who Built America" and do strongly recommend it. The show is engaging and interesting--no doubt about that. However, I did have a few minor objections which seemed to come up more and more when the shows progressed. First, the show would normally only be seen by people who love history and yet, time and again, the show tried to create cliffhanger moments even though nearly every viewer KNOWS that Rockefeller went on to become rich and Carnegie took a few gambles but became mega-rich! No surprises yet the show sure made it seem like it was. Second, sometimes the show was just a bit over-the-top when it came to the drama and music. Tone it down just a bit please. And third, a few times the history just wasn't quite accurate--especially in episode 4.So what we have is a rare show because it talks about the men who made America the economic power of the world--Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan and Ford. This is important history and generally is quite watchable but just could have scored a 10 had they roughed out a few aspects of the show.