<Li> <P> Henry Ford </P> </Li> <P> Note: The series consists of eight one - hour episodes; for TV they were combined into four two - hour episodes . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th> No . </Th> <Th> Title </Th> <Th> Directed by </Th> <Th> Written by </Th> <Th> Original air date </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> </Th> <Td> "A New War Begins" </Td> <Td> Ruán Magan </Td> <Td> David C. White, Keith Palmer </Td> <Td> October 16, 2012 (2012 - 10 - 16) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="5"> Cornelius Vanderbilt grows from a steamboat entrepreneur to the head of a railroad empire, and gets into a heated rivalry with Jim Fisk and Jay Gould; the up and coming John D. Rockefeller founds Standard Oil . Many business owners lay their own rail lines which leads to the Panic of 1873 . Later, Rockefeller starts to expand his wealth by diverting his business from the railroads to a new innovation, oil pipelines . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> </Th> <Td> "Bloody Battles" </Td> <Td> Patrick Reams </Td> <Td> David C. White, Keith Palmer </Td> <Td> October 23, 2012 (2012 - 10 - 23) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="5"> Andrew Carnegie builds an empire around steel, but finds himself struggling to save face after the ruthless tactics of his business partner, Henry Frick, result in both the Johnstown Flood as well as the bloody 1892 strike at the Homestead Steel Works . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> </Th> <Td> "Changing the Game" </Td> <Td> Patrick Reams </Td> <Td> David C. White, Patrick Reams, Keith Palmer </Td> <Td> October 30, 2012 (2012 - 10 - 30) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="5"> J.P. Morgan proceeds to banish the dark with the direct current electric light of Thomas Edison, but the two soon face serious competition from the alternating current of George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla . As the 19th century comes to a close, the titans of industry must try to work together to stop a new threat in budding politician William Jennings Bryan, who threatens to dissolve monopolies in America . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> </Th> <Td> "When One Ends, Another Begins" </Td> <Td> Patrick Reams </Td> <Td> David C. White, Keith Palmer </Td> <Td> November 11, 2012 (2012 - 11 - 11) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="5"> Rockefeller, Carnegie and Morgan team up to help elect William McKinley to the U.S. presidency by paying for his 1896 campaign, to avoid a possible attack on monopolies . However, fate intervenes when McKinley is suddenly assassinated, and Vice President Theodore Roosevelt assumes the presidency and promptly begins dissolving monopolies and trusts in America . Meanwhile, Morgan buys out Carnegie Steel to make Carnegie the richest man in the world, and Henry Ford designs an affordable automobile with his Model T and starts his own business, Ford Motor Company, which sets a new business model for companies to follow . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> No . </Th> <Th> Title </Th> <Th> Directed by </Th> <Th> Written by </Th> <Th> Original air date </Th> </Tr>

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