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MONEY
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1 season · 8 episodes total · ~8 per season.
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The Machines That Built America
2021 1 seasons · 8 eps Spanish
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★7.2TMDB · 4★7.6IMDB · 224
Documentary
Synopsis
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The stories behind innovations such as TV, radio, phones, airplanes, motorcycles and power tools as well as the inventors including Nikola Tesla, William Harley, Alexander Graham Bell, Duncan Black and Alonzo Decker.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
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Cast
Campbell Scott
Self - Narrator
Travis Taylor
Self - Engineer
Max Hastings
Arno Peterson
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RUNTIME
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Short-form: under 10 episodes, so binge-completable in a weekend.
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RUNTIME
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Roughly 6 hours end-to-end — 1 full workdays of television.
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ERA
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Premiered 2021.
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WILD
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TMDB status: "Returning Series".
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AWARDS
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Show type: Documentary.
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CAST
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Dialogue in Spanish, English.
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DIRECTOR
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Airs on History.
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- Seasons
- 1
- Total episodes
- 8
- Avg episode length
- 43 min
- Premiered
- 2021-07-18
- Last aired
- 2021-08-29
- Languages
- Spanish, English
- Countries
- United States of America
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