The Gilded Age

Meet the wealthy elite of the Gilded Age — and the struggling workers who challenged them.

THE GILDED AGE presents a compelling and complex story of one of the most convulsive and transformative eras in American history. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the U.S. population doubled in the span of a single generation, national wealth expanded, and two classes rose simultaneously, separated by a gulf of experience and circumstance that was unprecedented in American life. —

Credits:

Narrated By
Oliver Platt

Edited By
Nancy Novack

Produced by
Helen Dobrowski & Sarah Colt

Written by
Mark Zwonitzer

Directed by
Sarah Colt

Music By
Joel Goodman
David Bramfitt

Director of Photography
John Baynard

Executive Producer
Mark Samels

A Sarah Colt Productions Film for American Experience.

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First aired on The American Experience via PBS.

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