The Eighties
The third installment in executive producers Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog, following in the footsteps of also the SEVENTIES along with show THE SIXTIES, tackles ten years shaped by exceptionalism and excess. THE EIGHTIES intersperses interviews rare archival newsreel footage, and comments by actors, politicians, journalists, historians and others , painting on a picture of a brilliant decade. Episodes analyze this of Reagan the Cold War's close, Wall Street corruption, the TV and music landscape, and every thing between.