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Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

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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of Lee de Forest, a clergyman’s flamboyant son, who invented the audion tube; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdrawn inventor who pioneered FM technology; and David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created the most powerful communications company on earth.

Rating: 7.5

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Arturo

Toscanini

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Bob

Warren

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Orson

Welles

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Jason

Robards

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Barber

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Erik

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Ken

Bilby

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Norman

Corwin

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Susan

Douglas

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Frank

Günther

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Jeanne

Hammond

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Loren

Jones

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Garrison

Keillor

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Helen

Kelley

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Robert

Morris

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Dana

Raymond

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Gertrude

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Fred

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Gene

Autry

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John

Barrymore

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Winston

Churchill

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Charles

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Lee

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Ralph

Edwards

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Dwight

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Eugenia

Farrar

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Freeman

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Guglielmo

Marconi

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Marie

Mosquini

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Nelson

Rockefeller

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Franklin

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David

Sarnoff

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Sinatra

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Toscanini

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Warren

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Orson

Welles

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Jason

Robards

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Barber

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Erik

Barnouw

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Ken

Bilby

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Norman

Corwin

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