Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991)
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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)
Charles J. Correll
Self - Prepares for Amos 'n' Andy Broadcast (archive footage)
Lee De Forest
Self - Objects to Quality of Radio Programming (archive footage)
Ralph Edwards
Self - Host of 'This Is Your Life' (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self - Announces Landing in Normandy (archive footage)
Eugenia Farrar
Self (with Lee De Forest) (archive footage)
Freeman F. Gosden
Self - Prepares for Amos 'n' Andy Broadcast (archive footage)
Guglielmo Marconi
Self - Visits Sarnoff at RCA (archive footage)
Marie Mosquini
Self - with Lee De Forest (archive footage)
Nelson Rockefeller
Self - Eulogizes Sarnoff (archive footage)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self - Makes Broadcast About Banking Reform (archive footage)
David Sarnoff
Self - with Marconi at RCA (archive footage)
Frank Sinatra
Self - Serenades Sarnoff (archive footage)
Arturo Toscanini
Self - Conducts NBC Symphony (archive footage)
Harry S. Truman
Self - Announces Bombing of Hiroshima (archive sound)
Bob Warren
Self - This is Your Life Announcer (archive footage)
Orson Welles
Self - Professor in War of the Worlds Broadcast (archive sound)
Crew (13)
Tom Lewis
Producer, Author
Ken Burns
Producer, Director, Executive Producer, Music Director, Director of Photography
Morgan Wesson
Producer, Sound, Archival Footage Research
Geoffrey C. Ward
Writer
Yaffa Lerea
Associate Editor, Sound Editor
Lee Dichter
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Paul Barnes
Editor, Sound Editor
Camilla Rockwell
Associate Producer
Susanna Steisel
Associate Producer
Alan Barker
Sound
Dalton Delan
Executive In Charge Of Production
Allen Moore
Director of Photography
Buddy Squires
Director of Photography