| 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of Lee de Forest, a clergyman’s flamboyant son, who invented the audion tube; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdrawn inventor who pioneered FM technology; and David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created the most powerful communications company on earth. | |
| Release Date: | Oct 01, 1991 |
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| Director: | Ken Burns |
| Writer: | Geoffrey C. Ward, Tom Lewis |
| Genres: | History, Documentary |
| Keywords | radio, radio wave |
| Production Companies | Florentine Films |
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| Updates |
Updated: Feb 03, 2025 Entered: May 03, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Jason Robards | Narrator (voice) |
| Name | Job |
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| Geoffrey C. Ward | Writer |
| Ken Burns | Cinematography, Director, Music Director |
| Paul Barnes | Editor, Sound Editor |
| Yaffa Lerea | Sound Editor, Associate Editor |
| Tom Lewis | Author |
| Buddy Squires | Cinematography |
| Allen Moore | Cinematography |
| Morgan Wesson | Archival Footage Research, Sound |
| Alan Barker | Sound |
| Lee Dichter | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Dalton Delan | Executive In Charge Of Production |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Morgan Wesson | Producer |
| Tom Lewis | Producer |
| Ken Burns | Producer |
| Camilla Rockwell | Associate Producer |
| Susanna Steisel | Associate Producer |
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