The Eighties
The next installment from executive producers Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog, following in the footsteps of also the SEVENTIES and critically-acclaimed show THE SIXTIES, tackles 10 years shaped by exceptionalism and excess. Like its predecessors, THE EIGHTIES intersperses comments, interviews, along with rare archival newsreel footage from politicians, journalists, historians, actors and many others , painting a perspective-rich picture of a brilliant decade. Episodes examine the age of the most TV, Reagan, the AIDS crisis Wall Street corruption and music landscape, and everything between.