Capitalism in America: The Cult of Wealth (2023)
From the Gilded Age to the present day, the history of modern United States of America has been one of wealth and power concentrated into the hands of a few families with enormous fortunes.
Capitalism in America: The Cult of Wealth: Season 1 - 3 Episode s
1x1 - A Paradise for Millionaires (1870-1920)
November 7, 2023
At the end of the 19th century, a club of millionaires — John D. Rockefeller and his oil monopoly, steel king and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and banker J. P. Morgan, who financed the Industrial Revolution from Wall Street — took over the United States, where immigrants provided a labor force that was ruthlessly exploited.
1x2 - Making the Rich Pay (1921-1946)
November 7, 2023
The millionaires' paradise was destroyed by the crash of 1929, which plunged the country into the Great Depression and mass unemployment. Enraged by greed and tax evasion, Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, reelected in 1936, advocated controlled capitalism.
1x3 - Who Wants to Be a Billionaire? (1981-Today)
November 7, 2023
The federal welfare state controlled American capitalism until the 1973 oil crisis and recession, which led to the election of the ultra-liberal Ronald Reagan. At the dawn of the computer revolution, a generation of entrepreneurs, including Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, emerged in Silicon Valley around Stanford University, which combined public and private research.
Capitalism in America: The Cult of Wealth: 1 Season
Actors in Capitalism in America: The Cult of Wealth
Cédric Tourbe
Self - Narrator (voice)
Estelle Galarme
Self - Narrator (voice)
Volker Hanisch
Volker Hanisch (voice)
John D. Rockefeller
Self (archiv footage)
Marion von Stengel
Marion von Stengel (voice)
Andrew Carnegie
Self (archiv footage)
J.P. Morgan
Self (archiv footage)
Henry Ford
Self (archiv footage)
Pierre S. du Pont
Self (archiv footage)
Irénée du Pont
Self (archiv footage)
Lammot du Pont II
Self (archiv footage)
Harvey S. Firestone
Self (archiv footage)
Warren Buffett
Self (archiv footage)
Bill Gates
Self (archiv footage)
Jeff Bezos
Self (archiv footage)
Elon Musk
Self (archiv footage)
Mark Zuckerberg
Self (archiv footage)
Steve Jobs
Self (archiv footage)
Steve Wozniak
Self (archiv footage)
Paul Allen
Self (archiv footage)
Sergey Brin
Self (archiv footage)
Larry Page
Self (archiv footage)
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Self (archiv footage)
J.P. Morgan Jr.
Self (archiv footage)
Edsel Ford
Self (archiv footage)
Harvey S. Firestone Jr.
Self (archiv footage)
Charles M. Schwab
Self (archiv footage)
Clarence Saunders
Self (archiv footage)
Alfred P. Sloan
Self (archiv footage)
Winthrop W. Aldrich
Self (archiv footage)
Gerard Swope
Self (archiv footage)
Charles E. Wilson
Self (archiv footage)
Andrew Mellon
Self (archiv footage)
Donald Nelson
Self (archiv footage)
Henry Bradford Endicott
Self (archiv footage)
John D. Rockefeller III
Self (archiv footage)
Junius Spencer Morgan III
Self (archiv footage)
Eugene du Pont
Self (archiv footage)
Ogden L. Mills
Self (archiv footage)
Gordon Moore
Self (archiv footage)
Bill Hewlitt
Self (archiv footage)
David Packard
Self (archiv footage)
William McKinley
Self (archiv footage)
Woodrow Wilson
Self (archiv footage)
Warren G. Harding
Self (archiv footage)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self (archiv footage)
Harry S. Truman
Self (archiv footage)
Ronald Reagan
Self (archiv footage)
George H. W. Bush
Self (archiv footage)
Robert LaFollette
Self (archiv footage)
William Jennings Bryan
Self (archiv footage)
Mark Hanna
Self (archiv footage)
Nelson W. Aldrich
Self (archiv footage)
Frances Perkins
Self (archiv footage)
Carl Levin
Self (archiv footage)
Henry Paulson
Self (archiv footage)
Ayn Rand
Self (archiv footage)
Henry George
Self (archiv footage)
Thorstein Veblen
Self (archiv footage)
Jacob Riis
Self (archiv footage)
Jane Addams
Self (archiv footage)
Ethel du Pont
Self (archiv footage)
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Self (archiv footage)
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.
Self (archiv footage)
Nancy Reagan
Self (archiv footage)
Thomas A. Edison
Self (archiv footage)
Walt Disney
Self (archiv footage)
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Self (archiv footage)