Basic Info

First Air: March 31, 2016

Rating: ⭐ 7.6/10 (20 votes)

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 7

Last Episode

Name: The Tech Boom

Season: 1, Episode: 6

Air Date: 2016-06-30

Runtime: 60 min

A look at the innovations and inventions of the Digital Revolution, including the personal computer and the Internet, which have defined life as we know it today.

Videos

CNN's "The Eighties" Open (YouTube)

The Eighties commercials - CNN (YouTube)

The Eighties

2016 1 seasons 7 episodes ⭐ 7.6/10 20 votes

Overview

The third installment from executive producers Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog, following in the footsteps of critically-acclaimed series THE SIXTIES and THE SEVENTIES, tackles 10 years shaped by exceptionalism and excess. Like its predecessors, THE EIGHTIES intersperses rare archival newsreel footage, interviews, and comments by historians, journalists, politicians, celebrities and others, painting a perspective-rich picture of a vibrant decade. Episodes examine the age of Reagan, the AIDS crisis, the end of the Cold War, Wall Street corruption, the evolving TV and music scene, and everything in between.