Pioneers Turned Millionaires (Documentary, English)
Status: Ended
Premiered: 2011-11-06
Ended: 2011-12-04
Network: Smithsonian Channel
Country: US
Airs on: Sunday
Air time: 21:00
Runtime: 60 minutes
Meet five inventive, courageous, and hardworking entrepreneurs, who led the charge during one of the most exciting eras in economic history. Levi Strauss, Henry E. Steinway, William E. Boeing, John Jacob Astor and Henry J. Heinz changed the way the world eats, dresses, plays and travels. They each left Germany hoping to find a better life in America and they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Relive the tragedies and the triumphs that made them millions while leaving a major imprint on American culture.