TV series

The Machines That Built America

2021 · 1 season

A brisk, easy-watch history lesson mixing reenactments and talking heads, informative and mildly dramatic without demanding much attention.

Overview: 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.
How it feels: Brisk and fine in the background.
About: Technology, ambition, science, work
Content: No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
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Tone
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: background-friendly, 1 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: technology
ambition
science
work
power
Places: None
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none