Ken Burns American Stories

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1x10)

Uitzenddatum: Dec 09, 2002

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.