Beyond Citizen Kane is an English language documentary made by Simon Hartog in 1993. The documentary details the dominance of the TV Globo media group in Brazilian society, discussing the group's influence, power, and political connections. Globo's President and founder Roberto Marinho came in for particular criticism, being compared with fictional newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane. Globo, the documentary said, engaged in the same wholesale manipulation of news to influence public opinion as did Kane. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Simon Hartog is a British filmmaker. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Rede Globo is Brazils biggest television network and also number one producer and provider of Portuguese language television programming in the world. ... President and founder of the biggest brazilian TV channel, Globo. ... Charles Foster Kane, as portrayed by Orson Welles, giving a speech in his political campaign for governor. ... Citizen Kane was the first feature film directed by Orson Welles, who had previously directed two short films. ...

The movie is available in Brazil, though mostly in libraries and private collections.

The documentary tracks Globo's involvement with and support of the military dictatorship, its partnership with the Time Warner (at the time Time-Life) group, Marinho's political maneuverings (which included airing a non-live, edited version of a 1990 presidential debate favoring Fernando Collor de Mello) and a controversial deal involving shares of NEC Corporation and government contracts. Time Warner Inc. ... Time-Life is a book, music, and video marketer, that since 2003 has been combined with catalog reseller Lillian Vernon as a subsidiary of Direct Holdings Worldwide, and is no longer owned by its former parent Time Warner. ... Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello (born August 12, 1949) was president of Brazil from 1990 to 1992. ... NEC Corporation (Jp. ...

The documentary has interviews with notorious Brazilians, such as Chico Buarque, Leonel Brizola and Luis Inácio Lula da Silva. Chico Buarque (full name: Francisco Buarque de Hollanda; born June 19, 1944 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian singer, composer, dramatist and writer. ... Leonel Brizola was a Brazilian politician (Passo Fundo, January 22nd 1922 — Rio de Janeiro, June 21st 2004). ... Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (born October 6, 1945) is a left-wing Brazilian politician. ...

BCK was shown for the first time on BBC Four, September 1993. Was reprised many times in subsequent years and most recently one day later after Mr. Marinho death in 2005. Copies of the documentary are nevertheless available over the Internet, often via peer-to-peer networks, and have been informally distributed by members of Brazilian political parties and between university students. BBC Four is a BBC television channel available to digital television (Freeview, satellite and cable) viewers in the UK. The successor to an earlier digital channel called BBC Knowledge, BBC Four began broadcasting on March 2, 2002 - its first evenings programming being simulcast on BBC Two. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is a network that relies on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively few servers. ... A political party is an organization that seeks to attain political power within a government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns. ...

External links

• Download the video (in portuguese, only a few parts are subtitled)

• Mirror