Kathy Cronkite

Network -- Faye Dunaway and Peter Finch star in this satire of the news industry. When an anchorman has a breakdown on-air, threatening to killhimself on live TV.

The record-breaking sequel to Billy Jack finds Billy trial and sentenced to prison while the Freedom School flourishes. The utopian existence of the school is characterized by everything ranging from "yoga sports" to muckracking journalism. The narrow-minded townspeople have different ideas about their brand of liberalism, and when Billy Jack is released, things heat up for the school. Students are threatened and abused, and the Native Americans in the neighboring village are taunted and mistreated. After Billy Jack undergoes a vision quest, the governor and the police plot to permanently put an end to them, leaving it up to Billy Jack to save the day in this pioneering, eye-opening, and relentlessly entertaining audience favorite!

Academy Award, Emmy and Golden-Globe winner Faye Dunaway ("Chinatown," "Bonnie and Clyde") and Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner Peter Finch ("Sunday Bloody Sunday," "The Nun's Story") star in this powerful and still-relevant satire of the news industry. When a news anchor has a nervous breakdown on live television, and threatens to kill himself on a following live newscast, the event is manipulated by his driven producer into a ratings smash. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Director, Actress, Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay and two for Actor (it won for Actor, Actress, Supporting Actress and Original Screenplay), and winner of four Golden Globe awards, including Best Director, Actor and Actress. Also starring Academy Award-winner William Holden ("Sunset Boulevard," "The Wild Bunch"), Academy Award-winner Beatrice Straight ("Poltergeist," "The Nun's Story"), Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner and Emmy-nominee Robert Duvall ("Falling Down," "The Godfather" 1 and 2).

A California fruit picker inadvertently leads a union movement for farm workers in this astute satire on the plight of the working class.