Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
(1991)
Documentary, History
113min
74%
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, ...
Jason Robards
Acting
Red Barber
Acting
Erik Barnouw
Writing
Narrator (voice)
Jason Robards
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Self - Radio Announcer
Red Barber
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Self - Historian
Erik Barnouw
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Self - Biographer of David Sarnoff
Ken Bilby
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Self - Writer
Norman Corwin
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Self - Historian
Susan Douglas
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Self - Engineer
Frank Günther
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Self - Niece of Edwin H. Armstrong
Jeanne Hammond
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Self - Engineer
Loren Jones
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Self - Writer
Garrison Keillor
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Self - Radio Broadcaster
Helen Kelley
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Self - Engineer
Robert Morris
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Self - Friend of Edwin H. Armstrong
Dana Raymond
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Self - Engineer
Gertrude Tyne
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Self - Predicts Demise of Radio (archive footage)
Fred Allen
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Self - Sings (archive sound)
Gene Autry
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Hamlet (archive sound)
John Barrymore
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Self - Finest Hour Speech (archive sound)
Winston Churchill
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Self - Prepares for Amos 'n' Andy Broadcast (archive footage)
Charles J. Correll
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Self - Objects to Quality of Radio Programming (archive footage)
Lee De Forest
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Self - Host of 'This Is Your Life' (archive footage)
Ralph Edwards
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Self - Announces Landing in Normandy (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Self (with Lee De Forest) (archive footage)
Eugenia Farrar
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Self - Prepares for Amos 'n' Andy Broadcast (archive footage)
Freeman F. Gosden
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Self - Visits Sarnoff at RCA (archive footage)
Guglielmo Marconi
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Self - with Lee De Forest (archive footage)
Marie Mosquini
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Self - Eulogizes Sarnoff (archive footage)
Nelson Rockefeller
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Self - Makes Broadcast About Banking Reform (archive footage)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Self - with Marconi at RCA (archive footage)
David Sarnoff
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Self - Serenades Sarnoff (archive footage)
Frank Sinatra
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Self - Conducts NBC Symphony (archive footage)
Arturo Toscanini
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Self - Announces Bombing of Hiroshima (archive sound)
Harry S. Truman
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Self - This is Your Life Announcer (archive footage)
Bob Warren
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Self - Professor in War of the Worlds Broadcast (archive sound)
Orson Welles
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