Series

The Eighties

★ 7.6(22)20161h 0m1 season

The Eighties is available to rent or buy on Apple TV Store in Canada. It isn't on a subscription streaming service there yet. Availability checked 10 June 2026.

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Release date: 2016-03-31
Runtime: 1h 0m
Language: English
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 7
Network: CNN
Status: Ended
Country: United States of America

The Eighties — trailer

About The Eighties

The Eighties is a 2016 web series in the Documentary genre, starring H.W. Brands. It spans 1 season and 7 episodes, and originally aired on CNN. It holds an average rating of 7.6/10 from 22 viewers. Below you can see where to watch The Eighties in Canada — across streaming, rental and purchase options — along with the full cast, trailer and viewer reviews.

Synopsis

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.