ANDREW CARNEGIE: RAGS TO RICHES, POWER TO PEACE

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ANDREW CARNEGIE: RAGS TO RICHES, POWER TO PEACE

By Vicky MATTHEWS

Documentary - Completed 2015

Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace charts the story of a poor Scottish immigrant who sailed to America in the 1840s, and by the end of the century would be the richest man in the world. Andrew Carnegie befriended aristocrats & royalty in his quest to stop WW1, but failed.

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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015

- Year of production
- 2015
- Genres
- Documentary, Historical, Biography
- Countries
- USA, UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 59 mn
- Director(s)
- Vicky MATTHEWS
- Writer(s)
- Vicky MATTHEWS
- Cast
- Brian COX, Corey JOHNSON
- Producer(s)
- Sonita GALE (Galeforce Films ), John ARCHER
- Synopsis
- His steel empire made Andrew Carnegie the richest man in the world. From his Scottish highland retreat, Skibo Castle, he spent his retirement masterminding a plan to use his wealth and influence to get Theodore Roosevelt, Kaiser Wilhelm II and King Edward VII to create a framework for world peace in the run up to the Great War. This documentary reveals the untold story of a man with incredible vision, whose dream of a world without conflict ended in tatters and led him to die a broken man. Narrated by Brian Cox, this film premiered at the 2015 Edinburgh Film Festival and was broadcast on BBC 2.
  
  Available to stream on Amazon Prime and Kanopy.
  
  Festivals/Screenings:
  
  2015 - Premiered at Edinburgh Film Festival
  2015 - British & Irish Film Season - Screening in Luxembourg
  2016 - United International Film Festival - Best Documentary Winner
  2016 - Pittsburgh Independent Film Fest - Best Feature Doc Winner
  2016 - Available for screening on the Sheffield Doc/Fest Marketplayer
  2019 - West Haven Public Library - Free Screening
  
  Broadcast:
  
  2015 - BBC Scotland
  2015 - BBC iPlayer
  
  DVD available at:
  
  Amazon
  Dunfermline Birthplace Museum
  Carnegie Trust
  Carnegie Club Gift Shop
  
  Reviews from viewers:
  
  "An informatively engaging biography of a man with singular vision through a great deal of sheer will and self belief with the ability to see the end goal & mechanisms in which it may be achieved"
  
  "An extraordinary man in every way. If only those of today with self created wealth continue the same vision then there should be hope for mankind"

ANDREW CARNEGIE: RAGS TO RICHES, POWER TO PEACE

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