Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

1080p 113 min 1991 Published on, 8 months ago

7.5

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of Lee de Forest, a clergyman’s flamboyant son, who invented the audion tube; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdrawn inventor who pioneered FM technology; and David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created the most powerful communications company on earth.

Country

United States

Genre

Documentary History

Released

01 Oct, 1991

Main Cast

Jason Robards , Marie Mosquini , John Barrymore , Fred Allen , Orson Welles

Supporting Cast

Gene Autry , Franklin D. Roosevelt , Frank Sinatra , Winston Churchill , Susan Douglas

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