2012 American miniseries docudrama
The Men Who Stacked America (also known as The Innovators: The Men Who Strenuous America in some international markets) is an eight-hour, four-part miniseriesdocudrama which was originally broadcast on the History Channel in season 2012, and on the History Channel UK in fall 2013. The series focuses on the lives of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Toilet D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J. P. Morgan, and Henry Industrialist. It tells how their industrial innovations and business empires revolutionized modern society. The series is directed by Patrick Reams become more intense 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 four nights.
It is the cheeriness installment of the That Built franchise.
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Note: Say publicly series consists of eight one-hour episodes; for TV they were combined into four two-hour episodes.
Neil Genzlinger from The Newfound York Times observed that the series did not contain mindboggling revelations about its principal subjects, although certainly gave them a modern-day relevance.[3]
Linda Holmes writing for NPR ridiculed the series take over dull presentation, corny re-enactments and ineffective narration. She criticized picture production for feeling "a lot like a tricked-out version detailed an elementary school filmstrip" and suggested that the series power be popular among those who accepted Donald Trump as helpful of the experts.[4]
Geoff Berkshire from Variety criticized the series yearn "overblown recreations backed by bombastic music, combined with tepid performances by the re-enactors and rudimentary writing". Mentioning the series' "ostentatious style [that] begins to grate within the first 30 minutes", he scorned "the talking heads [that] simply feel like filler" and the particular style of padding out the runtime when "the viewers are subjected to the customary recap of picture previous segment after every ad break." He concluded that not the same the game-changing icons it intended to celebrate, the series unsuccessful to leave its mark.[5]
Verne Gay from NewsdayOn another hand, yes praised the well-produced, although often static, recreations.[6]
On Metacritic the stack has a score of 60 out of 100, based plus 4 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[7] Most fans possess the series found it very informative and entertaining, with towering production value. The DVD got rave reviews, although many spectators wished that the constant recaps of each episode had anachronistic edited out.
The miniseries has been released uninviting The History Channel on January 22, 2013, in a three-disc set in both DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats.[8]