Pioneers Turned Millionaires (Season 1) - 2-DVD Set ( Vom Pionier zum Millionär ) ( Pioneers Turned Millionaires - Season One )

Pioneers Turned Millionaires (Season 1) - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Vom Pionier zum Millionär
Alternate Title: Pioneers Turned Millionaires - Season One
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
260 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Kai Christiansen
Achim Scheunert

Written By:
Christoph Weinert

Actors:
Nicholas X. Parsons ..... George Conrad Westervelt / ... (4 episodes, 2010)
Meredith Garrison ..... Doretta Steinway / ... (2 episodes, 2010)
Robb Warren
James Trani
Dana Bogdanski
Barry Ellenberger
Kalen Mcnatt
Fergus O'Doherty

Synopsis:

Five visionary entrepreneurs from the old world redefined the economy of the new world and left a major imprint on American culture. Levi Strauss, Henry E. Steinway, William E. Boeing, John Jacob Astor and Henry J. Heinz - one can hardly ignore their names or products anywhere in the world today. Innovation, courage, persistency and hard work were the attributes that made them succeed in a strange new country. With the help of high-end reconstructions and exquisite archive material, this series presents one of the most fascinating and exciting eras of American economic history. How did these five men, who all started out as immigrants, become archetypical self-made millionaires that even now epitomize the success story that is America?
Season 1
Episode 1: William Boeing
Episode 2: Henry E. Steinway
Episode 3: Henry John Heinz
Episode 4: John Jacob Astor
Episode 5: Levi Strauss

We visit the companies of Levi Strauss & Co., Steinway & Sons, Heinz Ketchup and Boeing. We see how each of their founders had a novel and brilliant idea, used it to established a company, and gained fame, honour and wealth. These biographies are the definitive portraits of these five entrepreneurial giants; businessmen who have their homeland in common and their place in history secured. They had left for economic, social, political or religious reasons - but all to find a better life in the United States of America.

Season 1
Season 1, Episode 1: William Boeing
Original Air Date-15 February 2010
Season 1, Episode 2: Henry E. Steinway
Original Air Date-16 February 2010
Season 1, Episode 3: Henry John Heinz
Original Air Date-17 February 2010
Season 1, Episode 4: John Jacob Astor
Original Air Date-18 February 2010
Season 1, Episode 5: Levi Strauss
Original Air Date-19 February 2010

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 05 November, 2011.