Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan, Ford, the Men Who Built America. Meet the titans who forged the foundation of modern America and created the American Dream. The mini-series shines a spotlight on the 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.

Author, lawyer, Marxist revolutionary, creator of the Soviet Communist Party, and founder of the U.S.S.R., Vladimir Lenin led the Bolsheviks and the Red Army. This Biography episode follows Lenin's revolutionary career.

Explores the Kitchen Debate between Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.

Covers events around the world including the formation of the Warsaw Pact by the Eastern Bloc nations and the death of American actor, James Dean.

This episode of Biography looks at Brigham Young, a settler in the American west and President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Known as the 'Mormon Moses', Young followed founder Joseph Smith as head of the Mormon church.

This episode examines Nevada's Comstock Lode and the town that boomed around its silver ore mines, Virginia City. The lode first flourished from 1859 to 1865, and again from 1873 to 1882.

Examines World War II in Europe in 1940.

Henry Ford's Model T and assembly line, together with the discovery of abundant oil reserves, opened up a new way of life for Americans in the early decades of the twentieth century. This episode looks at those developments and traces the significance of World War I, prohibition, African-American migration from the South to northern cities, and the origin and growth of the Hollywood film industry.

Travels to 1943 to explore Hollywood's influence on World War II and the movie stars who went to war.