Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
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of Lee de Forest, a clergyman’s flamboyant son, who invented the audion tube; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdrawn inventor who pioneered FM technology; and David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created the most powerful communications company on earth.
Year: 1991
Genre: Documentary, History
Studio: Florentine Films
Director: Ken Burns
Cast: Jason Robards, Red Barber, Erik Barnouw, Ken Bilby, Norman Corwin, Susan Douglas
Crew: Tom Lewis (Producer), Ken Burns (Producer), Morgan Wesson (Producer), Ken Burns (Director), Geoffrey C. Ward (Writer), Tom Lewis (Author)
Runtime: 113 minutes
Release: Oct 01, 1991
IMDb: 7.50/10 by 8 users
Popularity: 0
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Keyword : radio wave, radio
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