Diretor/a
Ken Burns
DIRETOR/A
Elenco (na ordem dos créditos)
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
Frank Günther
Self (engineer)
Jeanne Hammond
Self - Niece of Edwin H. Armstrong
Loren Jones
Self - Engineer
Garrison Keillor
Helen Kelley
Self - Radio Broadcaster
Robert Morris
Dana Raymond
Self - Friend of Edwin H. Armstrong
Gertrude Tyne
Fred Allen
Self - Predicts Demise of Radio(uncredited)(archiveFootage)
Gene Autry
Self - Sings(uncredited)(archiveSound)
John Barrymore
Hamlet(uncredited)(archiveSound)
Winston Churchill
Self - Finest Hour Speech(uncredited)(archiveSound)
Charles J. Correll
Self - Prepares for Amos 'n' Andy Broadcast(uncredited)(archiveFootage)
Lee De Forest
Self - Objects to Quality of Radio Programming(uncredited)(archiveFootage)
Ralph Edwards
Self - Host of 'This Is Your Life'(uncredited)(archiveFootage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self - Announces Landing in Normandy(uncredited)(archiveSound)
Eugenia Farrar
Self (with Lee De Forest)(uncredited)(archiveFootage)(unconfirmed)
Freeman F. Gosden
Guglielmo Marconi
Self - Visits Sarnoff at RCA(uncredited)(archiveFootage)
Marie Mosquini
Self - with Lee De Forest(uncredited)(archiveFootage)
Nelson Rockefeller
Self - Eulogizes Sarnoff(uncredited)(archiveFootage)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self - Makes Broadcast About Banking Reform(uncredited)(archiveFootage)
David Sarnoff
Self - with Marconi at RCA(uncredited)(archiveFootage)
Frank Sinatra
Self - Serenades Sarnoff(uncredited)(archiveFootage)
Arturo Toscanini
Self - Conducts NBC Symphony(uncredited)(archiveFootage)
Harry S. Truman
Self - Announces Bombing of Hiroshima(uncredited)(archiveSound)
Bob Warren
This is Your Life Announcer Dr. Lee DeForrest episode(uncredited)
Orson Welles
Professor in War of the Worlds Broadcast(uncredited)(archiveSound)