Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
Watch Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio Free Online HD Moviesjoy.strong> 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of Lee de Forest, a clergyman’s flamboyant son, who invented the audion tube; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdrawn inventor who pioneered FM technology; and David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created the most powerful communications company on earth.
- Genre: Documentary, History
- Country: United States
- Director: Ken Burns
- Cast: Jason Robards, Red Barber, Erik Barnouw, Ken Bilby, Norman Corwin, Susan Douglas, Frank Günther, Jeanne Hammond, Loren Jones, Garrison Keillor, Helen Kelley, Robert Morris, Dana Raymond, Gertrude Tyne, Fred Allen, Gene Autry, John Barrymore, Winston Churchill, Charles J. Correll, Lee De Forest, Ralph Edwards,
