| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Transcontinental Railroad. Prod. by Mark Zwonitzer. HiddenHill Productions for American Experience, 2003. 120 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698; 800-344-3337; <shop@pbs.org>; <http://shop.pbs.org/education/> [Sept. 15, 2003])

This engaging documentary recounts the vision, construction project, and financial corruption that led to the transcontinental railroad's completion at Promontory Point, Utah, in 1869. At the time, it was billed as the largest construction project in human history. The story is skillfully narrated by Michael Murphy, with commentary offered by the historians Phil Roberts, Wendell Huffman, Donald Fixico, and Carol Bowers, the anthropologist Fred Gamst, and the writer David Bain. Most of the visuals are nineteenth-century photographs, drawings, and newspaper cartoons, which are interspersed with modern photographs of sites and related railroad scenes.

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