The Men Who Built America - Available on Netflix

[smreitz]

For those of you that are fans of 'Breaking Bad', this series brings a great intertwined story of the rise of industrial America including Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan, and Ford.

 

I am sure there are some historical inaccuracies, but it is really fun to watch the History Chanel incorporate some dramatic flare and blues guitar rifts to make this a 'sexy' history lesson.

 

http://www.history.com/shows/men-who-built-america

 

Available now on Netflix for instant viewing of Season 1.

 

 

[Fat Pitch]

DVR'd this when it came out on H channel. I agree its 5 star material. Also available on Netflix is the 2 hour bio-doc on Ford by PBS. His strategy on buying back Ford from the public is absolutely brutal.

[boilermaker75]

I also watched this when it came out on the History channel. I highly recommend it.

[cobafdek]

For those of you that are fans of 'Breaking Bad', this series brings a great intertwined story

 

I'm eager to watch this, and thanks for bringing it up.  Breaking Bad was certainly the greatest.  I'm scratching my head here:  is there anything more than a loose connection here with The Men Who Built America?  I get that it's intertwined, riveting, and highly prone to compulsive binge-watching, but are there other parallels? 

 

I watched Breaking Bad with my 15 year old son, and now he wants to be a chemical engineer.  Will Men Who Built America be "an equally wholesome influence"(!) on him?

[LC]

In that case, maybe don't watch Hannibal with him.

[CorpRaider]

Thanks for flagging.  I caught some/most of this on TV, but will be nice to binge watch.  I think I also caught some extended super deluxe version once on H2.