Entrepreneurs: An American Adventure (1992)
Sub-Genres - Biography, Inventions & Innovations, Social History |
Run Time - 60 min. |
Countries - United States |
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Synopsis by Sally Barber
The six-part documentary series The Entrepreneurs: An American Adventure captures the bold spirit of the men and women who embraced the American dream to shape this nation's economic course and quality of life. Interviews, dramatizations, vintage newsreel footage, and historic photographs relate the dynamic stories of America's most successful industrial and economic pioneers. The Entrepreneurs: An American Adventure -- The Entrepreneurs focuses on innovators who both created and marketed their own products, including Thomas Edison; King Gillette, inventor of the safety razor; MTV founder Robert Pittman; Margaret Rudkin of Pepperidge Farms; chocolate chip cookie mogul Wally Amos; implantable pacemaker inventor Wilson Greatbatch; and the man who brought the world Monopoly, Charles Darrow.
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achievement, inventor, stories, success, business, marketing, entrepreneur
