Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

7.6 1991 113 min
G
Documentary History

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 p…

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Director
Ken Burns
Writer
Geoffrey C. Ward
Classification
G

Cast

The cast behind this title

Jason Robards Narrator (voice)
Red Barber Self - Radio Announcer
Erik Barnouw Self - Historian
Ken Bilby Self - Biographer of David Sarnoff
Norman Corwin Self - Writer
Susan Douglas Self - Historian
Frank Günther Self - Engineer
Jeanne Hammond Self - Niece of Edwin H. Armstrong
Loren Jones Self - Engineer
Garrison Keillor Self - Writer
Helen Kelley Self - Radio Broadcaster
Robert Morris Self - Engineer
Dana Raymond Self - Friend of Edwin H. Armstrong
Gertrude Tyne Self - Engineer
Fred Allen Self - Predicts Demise of Radio (archive footage)
Gene Autry Self - Sings (archive sound)
John Barrymore Hamlet (archive sound)
Winston Churchill Self - Finest Hour Speech (archive sound)

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