(Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio)

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of Lee de Forest, a clergyman’s flamboyant son, who invented the audion tube; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdrawn inventor who pioneered FM technology; and David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created the most powerful communications company on earth.

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Documentary,

History

Runtime:

113 minutes

Year:

1991

Directors:

Ken Burns

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Production companies:

Florentine Films

Actors:

Narrator (voice)

Self - Radio Announcer

Self - Historian

Self - Biographer of David Sarnoff

Self - Writer

Crews:

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director

Writer