Empire of the Air

From Ken Burns, producer of THE CIVIL WAR, comes the story of radio's creation of radio and three men of genius, vision, and determination: Lee De Forest, a clergyman's flamboyant son; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdrawn inventor; and David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created the world's most powerful communications company. This film evokes the lives of three men whose work profoundly transformed modern America.


Aliases
  • Ken Burns' America: Empire of the Air
English
  • TheTVDB.com Series ID 331633
  • Status Ended
  • First Aired January 29, 1992
  • Recent January 29, 1992
  • Network PBS
  • Average Runtime 120 minutes
  • Genres Documentary History
  • Original Country United States of America
  • Original Language English
  • On Other Sites IMDB
  • Episode Screenshot Format 4:3 Screencap
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  • Created July 12, 2017 by
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  • Modified September 23, 2022 by
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