This documentary captures the amazing life and times of our nation's forgotten founding father: Alexander Hamilton. Exploring the iconic American political and financial institutions he helped to create - from the U.S. Mint and Wall Street to the two-party political system - we'll examine Hamilton's enormous influence that still resonates today. Ron Chernow, whose biography of Alexander Hamilton served as the basis for the hit Broadway play, along with other notable names including Tom Brokaw and Maria Bartiromo, contribute to an all-encompassing look at one of our nation's most accomplished leaders.
How U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson used his political prowess to make the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 happen. The story is told using rarely-seen footage, interviews and secret White House tapes.
The story of three decades of war told through the eyes of various men who were its key players: Roosevelt, Hitler, Patton, Mussolini, Churchill, Tojo, DeGaulle and MacArthur. The series examines the two wars as one contiguous timeline starting in 1914 and concluding in 1945 with these unique individuals coming of age in World War I before ultimately calling the shots in World War II.
Influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States, a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological superpower the world had ever seen. The Men Who Built America is the story of a nation at the crossroads and of the people who catapulted it to prosperity.
Don Meehan is a New York-based film, stage and television actor. He played the role of Charles DeGaulle in the TV mini-series "The World Wars", and portrayed Thomas Scott in the Emmy-winning "Men Who Built America" miniseries. He's also made appearances on "The Break with Michelle Wolf", the NBC pilot "Believe", (directed by Alfonso Cuarón), "House Of Cards", and "As The World Turns". Meehan had lead and supporting roles in such indie films as "The Sunset Sky" for the Montreal Film Festival (First Feature category), and "The Time We Lost" (Venice Film Festival). He appeared in the indie feature film Love, Lies and Seeta (2012). Onstage, he's appeared Off-Broadway in the 1-man show "Play Dead", Directed & co-written by Teller and Todd Robbins, as well as in "Soul Doctor" after transferring from Broadway.
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