The Machines That Built America

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Each storytelling and reenactments were so riveting, dramatic, believable, and full of surprises that it keeps you wanting more. ALL the actors were magnificent and so handsome in their period piece attire. The narrator(s) were terrific, compelling and pulled you in. History is timeless indeed and should be gratefully appreciated. ThankQ 4 making these materpieces. Sincerely yours xoxox :0)

Those of you who said "well done" should be embarrassed. This is entertaining, at best. It's on the level of a fictional movie like Batman and Robbin. As a documentary, it very well may be a series full of lazy information gathering and lack luster fact finding.

I should clarify, I'm not sure if this documentary is wrong or if its The Titans That Built America that is wrong but, the two documentaries have completely opposite facts about Henry Ford and airplanes.

This "documentary" describes Henry Ford as a pioneer in air travel. A man who is a driving force in the development of airplanes.

In The Titans That Built America, Henry Ford is completely against the idea of airplanes and is at odds with his son Edsel Ford who uses Ford money, power and ingenuity to help develop air travel. Edsel wanted his legacy to be in air travel while his father, Henry Ford, felt it was a waste of time and money.

I use quotes when I say "documentary" because this is labeled as a documentary but a documentary is supposed to present official facts. This "documentary" makes me question its' creditability all together.

I decided to do a little quick research to see if the same people wrote and produced the two documentaries but I couldn't find that information for this series which leads me to believe that it was written and produced by some 6th graders in their moms basement. I'm comfortable with my conclusion that the producers of The Titans That Built American did their research.

I'm only in episode 2 of this series and I'm pretty sure that everything else that they tell me is going to be based on lazy, ill-informed "fact" finding. Complete garbage!

History channel has a bunch of these types of docudramas. The food that...The titans who....etc. This one is very similar. They focus in dramatic form on the who, what, where, and how. It's really interesting and informative.

This program isn't what it purports to be. Whilst well Put together and interesting, factually it is wrong largely because it's US centric and biased. Many of these inventions started in the UK and Europe, NOT THE US. Example television, stated to be invented and developed in the states, no mention of the real Scottish inventor, John Logi Baird. Ditto the motorcycle invented by Daimler, the program cites Harley Davison along with another U. S. inventor.

If you want an interesting documentary, well produced, then fine. If you want real facts, forget it!