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Full-Length Films & Selected Clips
The American Industrial RevolutionUnited Learning (1997)
An overview of the entire era – Industrialization including railroads, the steel industry, the oil industry, and other inventions; agriculture, homesteading in the west; mining; cowboys and cattle drives; urbanization; immigration; robber barons and disparity in the workplace; child labor; unions; ill effects of industrialization and urbanization; and the impact of the era on America’s past and present. |
Robber Barons and the Industrial AgEA & E Home Video - Columbia House (1992)
This brief clip describes the rise of big business and the entrepreneurs who became know as robber barons. Immigrants flood into America to become part of a rising working class. Unions and strikes eventually transform labor conditions. |
New York: Episode 3: Sunshine and Shadow (1865-1898)
Ric Burns – American Experience (1999)
This episode of NEW YORK: A DOCUMENTARY FILM turns to the period when greed and wealth fueled an expanding metropolis, even as politics and poverty defined it. Now the spotlight shines on the growth, glamour and grief of New York during America's giddy postwar "Gilded Age." Exploring the incomparable wealth of the robber barons and the unabashed corruption of political leaders, such as Tammany Hall boss William M. Tweed, the episode examines the era when the expansion of wealth and poverty -- and the schism between them -- built to a crescendo. The program ends as the city itself dramatically expands its boundaries, annexing Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island into a single massive metropolis -- Greater New York. |
Andrew Carnegie: The Richest Man in the World
American Experience (2005)
Andrew Carnegie's life seemed touched by magic. He embodied the American dream: the immigrant who went from rags to riches, the self-made man who became a captain of industry, the king of steel. "Carnegie was more than most people," says Owen Dudley Edwards, historian at the University of Edinburgh. "Not only more wealthy, not only more optimistic, Carnegie is still, right throughout his life, the little boy in the fairy story, for whom everything has to be all right." The Richest Man is a story of a business genius who created a steel empire that made America the most prosperous economy in the world. Everything in his story looms large: The implications of his low-cost steel were enormous for the American economy. The backstabbing, chicanery, and generosity are on the grandest scale. Carnegie's struggle with the unions would determine the role of labor in industrial America. |
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