Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991)
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 m... more
Directing:
Writing:
Stars:
- Ken Burns
Writing:
- Geoffrey C. Ward
- Tom Lewis
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Release Date: 1991-10-01
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7.5/10
- Country: US
- Language: English
- Runtime: 113
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Narrator (voice)
Self - Historian
Self - Historian
Self - Writer
Self - Predicts Demise of Radio (archive footage)
Self - Sings (archive sound)
Hamlet (archive sound)
Self - Finest Hour Speech (archive sound)
Self - Objects to Quality of Radio Programming (archive footage)
Self - Host of 'This Is Your Life' (archive footage)
Self - Announces Landing in Normandy (archive footage)
Self - with Lee De Forest (archive footage)
Self - Eulogizes Sarnoff (archive footage)
Self - Makes Broadcast About Banking Reform (archive footage)
Self - Serenades Sarnoff (archive footage)
Self - Conducts NBC Symphony (archive footage)
Self - Announces Bombing of Hiroshima (archive sound)
Self - Professor in War of the Worlds Broadcast (archive sound)
