The Eighties
The 3rd installment in executive producers Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog, following in the footsteps of THE SEVENTIES and also show THE SIXTIES, tackles ten years shaped by exceptionalism and excess. THE EIGHTIES intersperses interviews rare archival footage, and comments by journalists, historians, politicians, actors among many others , painting on a perspective-rich picture of a brilliant couple of years. Episodes analyze this of Reagan, the AIDS crisisat the ending of the Cold War, Wall Street corruption, that the evolving television and music landscape, and everything between.