The Machines That Built America

The episodes present famous figures as "changing the world" ignoring almost 99% of the facts and history of these inventions.

One episode presents Henry Ford as coming up with the idea of a Tractor (engine), despite this being used for almost 50 years in the UK before he was born.

As a retired Bell employee, I was excited to watch Ep5 Telephone Wars. However, I found the background music quite annoying. I even turned off my audio sound system. The background music was still annoying and a distraction to the story.

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!

"Don't let the truth get in the way of telling a good story" is the crutch of the production dept., with no budget, or no fact checkers.

How someone approved the description of Serbian national treasure Nikolai Tesla as "From what is now called Croatia" beggars belief.

And "Plane Pioneers" completely ignores Edsel Ford's contribution as the driving force behind the Ford Aircraft Co,.

And that's just the easily spotted contradictions between this and other documentary series.