The Gilded Age

Synopsis

In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, the population of the United States doubled in the span of a single generation. As national wealth expanded, two classes rose simultaneously, separated by a gulf of experience and circumstance that was unprecedented in American life. These disparities sparked passionate and violent debate over questions still being asked in our own times: How is wealth best distributed, and by what process? Does government exist to protect private property or provide balm to the inevitable casualties of a churning industrial system? The outcome of these disputes was both uncertain and momentous, and marked by a passionate vitriol and level of violence that would shock the conscience of many Americans today.

Main Cast

Oliver Platt

narrator

Age : 64 | Popularity : 36%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Sound	Music	Joel Goodman David Bramfitt
Editing	Editor	Nancy Novack
	Archival Footage Coordinator	Alexandra C. Singer
Writing	Writer	Mark Zwonitzer
Production	Executive Producer	Mark Samels
	Producer	Sarah Colt Helen Ryan Dobrowski
	Associate Producer	Michael Haviland
Directing	Director	Sarah Colt
Camera	Director of Photography	John Baynard
Department	Role	Name

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