Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
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1991
1h 53m
G
English
Documentary, History
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Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
G
Movie
1991
1h 53m
English
Documentary, History
For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.” In Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio, Ken Burns examines the lives of three extraordinary men who shared the primary responsibility for this invention and its early success, and whose genius, friendship, rivalry and enmity interacted in tragic ways. This is the story of Lee de Forest, a clergyman’s flamboyant son, who invented the audion tube; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdrawn inventor who pioneered FM technology; and David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created the most powerful communications company on earth.
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Cast
Narrator (voice)
Self - Radio Announcer
Self - Historian
Self - Writer
Self - Historian
Self - Writer
Self - Radio Broadcaster
Self - Predicts Demise of Radio (ar...
Self - Sings (archive sound)
Hamlet (archive sound)
Self - Finest Hour Speech (archive ...
Self - Prepares for Amos 'n' Andy B...
Self - Objects to Quality of Radio ...
Self - Host of 'This Is Your Life' ...
Self - Announces Landing in Normand...
Self - Prepares for Amos 'n' Andy B...
Self - with Lee De Forest (archive ...
Self - Eulogizes Sarnoff (archive f...
Self - Makes Broadcast About Bankin...
Self - with Marconi at RCA (archive...
Self - Serenades Sarnoff (archive f...
Self - Conducts NBC Symphony (archi...
Self - Announces Bombing of Hiroshi...
Self - Professor in War of the Worl...
Directed By: Ken Burns
Written By: Geoffrey C. Ward
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