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Producer: Stephen David Entertainment

Genres: Factual


8 x 60’

Rockefeller, Ford, Vanderbilt, Dupont, Kennedy, Bush. Their names are forever etched in American history and the nation’s psyche. These dynastic families have become some of the richest and most powerful people in the world. They have created new industries and technologies that to most of us would have seemed unimaginable. They ushered in transformative change and shifted our sense of what was possible. They truly opened what we now understand as the modern world and the way we live in it.

American Dynasty is the story of eight of these dynastic families. Each episode will bookend their extraordinary family history with the status of these dynasties today.

American Dynasty highlights the enormous power wielded by these men. They were unstoppable, as they sometimes ruthlessly built unprecedented wealth and prestige and captured the world’s most important political offices. American Dynasty, the series, both extols their accomplishments and acknowledges their lapses of judgment and moral flaws, including strains of prejudice and anti-Semitism that at times run through their stories. Though some have faded with time, most of these American dynasties are still powerful and prominent. These legendary old money families, industrial dynasties and political bloodlines still hold a surprising amount of power and influence today –especially as we contemplate their standing in our democracy, and in the national imagination.

American Dynasty will also explore the conflicts and competitions inside the families to control the direction the dynasty will take, exploring the competition over who will control the money and seize the power. These stories are told by historians, authors, celebrity experts and insiders.

We will also reach out to members of the dynasties themselves, in the hope that they will participate in the series and offer their insights.

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