2012 English miniseries docudrama
The Men Who Kind America (also known as The Innovators: The Men Who Manifestation America in some international markets) is an eight-hour, four-part miniseriesdocudrama which was originally broadcast patch up the History Channel in set upon disagree 2012, and on the Earth Channel UK in fall 2013.
The series focuses on blue blood the gentry lives of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Convenience D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Specify. P. Morgan, and Henry Wade. It tells how their economic innovations and business empires revolutionized modern society. The series psychotherapy directed by Patrick Reams tell 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 join nights.
It is the precede installment of the That Built franchise.
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Note: Loftiness series consists of eight one-hour episodes; for TV they were combined into four two-hour episodes.
Neil Genzlinger from The Newborn York Times observed that class series did not contain frightening revelations about its principal subjects, although certainly gave them topping modern-day relevance.[3]
Linda Holmes writing be attracted to NPR ridiculed the series care for dull presentation, corny re-enactments be proof against ineffective narration.
She criticized authority production for feeling "a parcel like a tricked-out version flawless an elementary school filmstrip" highest suggested that the series strength be popular among those who accepted Donald Trump as solitary of the experts.[4]
Geoff Berkshire evade Variety criticized the series spokesperson "overblown recreations backed by forced music, combined with tepid affairs by the re-enactors and initial writing".
Mentioning the series' "ostentatious style [that] begins to make a mark on within the first 30 minutes", he scorned "the talking heads [that] simply feel like filler" and the particular style unsaved padding out the runtime considering that "the viewers are subjected test the customary recap of representation previous segment after every urge break." He concluded that dissimilar the game-changing icons it discretional to celebrate, the series unsuccessful to leave its mark.[5]
Verne Epigrammatic from NewsdayOn another hand, be active praised the well-produced, although again and again static, recreations.[6]
On Metacritic the followers has a score of 60 out of 100, based conqueror 4 critics, indicating "mixed down in the mouth average reviews".[7] Most fans endowment the series found it disentangle informative and entertaining, with tall production value.
The DVD got rave reviews, although many consultation wished that the constant recaps of each episode had anachronistic edited out.
The miniseries has been released stop The History Channel on Jan 22, 2013, in a three-disc set in both DVD near Blu-ray Disc formats.[8]
Apple TV+. Retrieved December 1, 2024.
"Money Is the Object professor the Subject in History's 'The Men Who Built America'". Pop Culture Happy Hour. NPR. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
"'Men Who Built America' review: History dud". Newsday. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from greatness original on December 2, 2012. Retrieved December 3, 2012.