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of Lee de Forest, a clergyman’s flamboyant son, who invented the audion tube; Edwin Howard Armstrong, a brilliant, withdrawn inventor who pioneered FM technology; and David Sarnoff, a hard-driving Russian immigrant who created the most powerful communications company on earth.
Unfortunately the movie Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Production | Tom Lewis | Producer |
| Production | Ken Burns | Producer |
| Production | Morgan Wesson | Producer |
| Directing | Ken Burns | Director |
| Writing | Geoffrey C. Ward | Writer |
| Writing | Tom Lewis | Author |
| Editing | Yaffa Lerea | Associate Editor |
| Crew | Buddy Squires | Cinematography |
| Sound | Morgan Wesson | Sound |
| Crew | Ken Burns | Cinematography |
| Sound | Lee Dichter | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Yaffa Lerea | Sound Editor |
| Editing | Paul Barnes | Editor |
| Production | Camilla Rockwell | Associate Producer |
| Production | Susanna Steisel | Associate Producer |
| Sound | Alan Barker | Sound |
| Crew | Allen Moore | Cinematography |
| Editing | Morgan Wesson | Archival Footage Research |
| Sound | Paul Barnes | Sound Editor |
| Production | Ken Burns | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Ken Burns | Music Director |
| Production | Dalton Delan | Executive In Charge Of Production |
