In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, the population of the United States doubled in the span of a single generation. As national wealth expanded, two classes rose simultaneously, separated by a gulf of experience and circumstance that was unprecedented in American life. These disparities sparked passionate and violent debate over questions still being asked in our own times: How is wealth best distributed, and by what process? Does government exist to protect private property or provide balm to the inevitable casualties of a churning industrial system? The outcome of these disputes was both uncertain and momentous, and marked by a passionate vitriol and level of violence that would shock the conscience of many Americans today.
Unfortunately the movie The Gilded Age is not yet available on HBO Max.
Editing | Nancy Novack | Editor |
Production | Mark Samels | Executive Producer |
Camera | John Baynard | Director of Photography |
Production | Helen Ryan Dobrowski | Producer |
Sound | David Bramfitt | Music |
Writing | Mark Zwonitzer | Writer |
Editing | Alexandra C. Singer | Archival Footage Coordinator |
Production | Michael Haviland | Associate Producer |
Production | Sarah Colt | Producer |
Directing | Sarah Colt | Director |
Sound | Joel Goodman | Music |