The $300 Million Copper Empire That Collapsed Overnight — The Fall of Kennecott, Alaska| Documentary

Deep in the Alaskan wilderness stands Kennecott—a ghost town that once produced over $200 million in copper (more than $3 billion today). For 27 years, it was a monument to American industrial power. Then, almost overnight, it vanished.

This is the untold story of the Alaska Syndicate, the Guggenheim empire, and the 600 men who built one of the most remote mining operations in history. It's a story of invisible labor, extreme danger, corporate abandonment, and the dark pattern that repeats throughout American history: boom, extraction, bust, abandonment.

From the impossible 196-mile railroad built through glaciers and mountains to the 14-story mill that processed some of the purest copper ever discovered, Kennecott represents both the heights of American ambition and the depths of its willingness to use and discard communities.
This 50-minute documentary investigation explores:

The geological discovery that sparked a copper rush
The Guggenheim and Morgan millions that funded an empire
The railroad that "Can't Run and Never Will"—until it did
The brutal working conditions in mines 6,000 feet up a mountain
The sudden abandonment that left an entire town frozen in 1938
The toxic legacy and environmental contamination left behind
What Kennecott reveals about America's relationship with work, wealth, and power

If you enjoy deep historical investigations that go beyond surface-level storytelling, this is for you.

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