Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991)
1991-10-01
United States of America
113 Min.
PG-13
Overview
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of Lee de Forest, a clergyman’s flamboyant son, who invented the audion tube; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdrawn inventor who pioneered FM technology; and David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created the most powerful communications company on earth.
Cast
Narrator (voice)
Self - Radio Announcer
Self - Historian
Self - Biographer of David Sarnoff
Self - Writer
Self - Historian
Self - Engineer
Self - Niece of Edwin H. Armstrong
Self - Engineer
Self - Writer
Self - Radio Broadcaster
Self - Engineer
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