The Eighties (series)
- User score: 7.6
- Production country: United States of America, United Kingdom
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 3/31/2016
- Release date of last episode: 6/30/2016
- Series status: Ended
- Seasons count: 1 ( List of episodes )
- Episodes count: 7
- Run time: 60 min.
Series description
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.
