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The Battle Over Citizen Kane #S08E07
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
American Experience · Season 8, Episode 7
A thinly-veiled portrait of the immensely powerful newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, the movie created a buzz long before it was released. Most people thought it the work of a genius, but Hearst set out to destroy the director, Orson Welles, and suppress the movie. Just a year earlier Welles had terrorized the east coast with a radio broadcast simulating an alien invasion. But now the 24-year-old boy-genius had taken on one of the most powerful men in America.
Episode 7 of Season 8 from American Experience — available to stream in HD on any device.
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