Season 5 · Episode 17

American Steel: Built to Last.

• Release date
• January 18, 1998
• Runtime
• 44 min

For over a century, the US steel industry was a powerful symbol of the nation's industrial might. Steel helped explode the stock market into an overnight powerhouse, and transformed a country of farmers and merchants into a nation of visionary builders. But America's domination of the market would meet new challenges in the 1970s.