The Gilded Age _ Full Documentary _ AMERICAN EXPERIENCE _ PBS
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.
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Video Summary
AI GeneratedThis video examines the Gilded Age in late 19th-century America, a period of rapid industrialization and extreme wealth inequality. It contrasts the opulent lives of \"new money\" titans like the Vanderbilts and J.P. Morgan with the struggles of the immigrant working class and farmers, detailing the rise of populist movements and the eventual triumph of industrial capitalism in the 1896 election.