
“The Greatest Generation”
They came of age during the Great Depression, fought to preserve freedom in World War II, and went on to build modern America. Ordinary men and women whose everyday lives of duty, achievement, and courage gave us the world we have today.
Creator
Status
Ended
Type
Documentary
Seasons
1
Episodes
4
4 episodes

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.

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.