The RockefellersLength: 50 minutes each (150 minutes)
This "3 part series" looks at the legendary Rockefeller Empire, who defined an era in American history through their oil refining business and legacy in politics.
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"Mr. Rockefeller, your fortune is rolling uplike an avalanche! You must distribute it faster than it grows! If you do not, it will crush you and your children and your children's children!"
“The Rev. Frederick Gates, hired by John D. Rockefeller to guide his philanthropy
"The Rockefellers" is the saga of four generations of a legendary American family whose name is synonymous with great wealth.
The story begins in the Christian revivalist fervor of the 1830s with a marriage of opposites: Eliza Davison, a pious young woman, and "DevilBill" Rockefeller, swindler, snake-oil salesman, and eventually,bigamist. Their son, John D. Rockefeller, created an industrial empire and a personal fortune on a scale the world had never known.He ruthlessly crushed his competitors in the process, alienating thepublic and leaving a stain on the family name. His dutiful son, John D.Jr., was a self-sacrificing young man who devoted his life to redeeminghis family's reputation. Junior's five sons scaled the heights of theAmerican century. One, Nelson, reached highest, exposing the very private Rockefellers once again to the harsh judgment of publicopinion. In the 1960s, a fourth generation of Rockefellers "theCousins" rebelled against their family, which had come to personify what was then known as "the establishment."
With unprecedented access to the Rockefeller family and their archives, producersElizabeth Deane ("The Kennedys") and Adriana Bosch ("Reagan") havecreated a complete documentary portrait of this renowned dynasty. "TheRockefellers" features on-camera interviews with Junior's two surviving sons, Laurance and David, and six of the Cousins generation: Steven Rockefeller, Rodman Rockefeller (who died in May 2000), Abby O'Neill,David Rockefeller Jr., Peggy Dulany, and the Honorable John D.Rockefeller IV; revealing home movies; and interviews with historians,biographers, and others close to the family. David Ogden Stiers narrates.
The world's first billionaire, John D. Rockefeller Sr.held 90 percent of the world's oil refineries, 90 percent of the marketing of oil, and a third of all the oil wells. Working methodically and secretly, he did more than transform a single industry. When he formed his feared monopoly, Standard Oil, in 1870 he changed forever the way America did business.
They feared thetemptations of wealth, yet their estate was once described as the kindof place God would have built–if only he had the money. They amasseda fortune that outraged a democratic nation, then gave much of it away.They were the closest thing this country had to a royal family, but they shunned the public eye, retreating behind the walls of their palatial home at Pocantico Hills, New York.
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