Episode Detail: The Battle Over Citizen Kane - The American Experience

"The Battle over `Citizen Kane' " chronicles how the fates of director Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst collided after Welles painted a thinly disguised portrait of the publishing magnate in the film "Citizen Kane." Included: Welles' rise in theater and radio; the far-reaching power of Hearst's empire. Richard Ben Cramer narrates.

Episodes: The American Experience - 303 total Episodes

2/12/2013: The American Experience: John D. Rockefeller
2/5/2013: Andrew Carnegie: American Experience    Season 25, Episode 5
2/5/2013: Silicon Valley: American Experience
1/29/2013: Henry Ford: American Experience    Season 25, Episode 4
1/22/2013: Part Three: 1854-Emancipation and Victory    Season 25, Episode 3
1/15/2013: Part Two: 1838-1854    Season 25, Episode 2
1/8/2013: Part One: 1820s-1838    Season 25, Episode 1
9/18/2012: Death and the Civil War: American Experience    Season 24, Episode 7
5/1/2012: Jesse Owens: American Experience    Season 24, Episode 6
4/3/2012: Grand Coulee Dam: American Experience    Season 24, Episode 5
2/28/2012: The Amish: American Experience    Season 24, Episode 4
2/21/2012: The Survivor    Season 24, Episode 3
2/21/2012: The Survivor
2/21/2012: A Real President
2/20/2012: The Comeback Kid    Season 24, Episode 2
2/20/2012: Blood Sport
2/20/2012: The Comeback Kid
1/17/2012: Custer's Last Stand: American Experience    Season 24, Episode 1
1/11/2012: Billy the Kid: American Experience
5/9/2011: Soundtrack for a Revolution    Season 23, Episode 10
4/25/2011: Stonewall Uprising    Season 23, Episode 9
4/11/2011: The Great Famine    Season 23, Episode 8
2/28/2011: Triangle Fire    Season 23, Episode 7
2/21/2011: Jimmy Carter    Season 23, Episode 6
1/31/2011: The Greely Expedition    Season 23, Episode 5
1/24/2011: Panama Canal    Season 23, Episode 4
1/17/2011: Dinosaur Wars    Season 23, Episode 3
1/10/2011: U.S. Grant: Warrior    Season 23, Episode 2
1/3/2011: Robert E. Lee    Season 23, Episode 1
5/10/2010: Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World    Season 22, Episode 8
5/3/2010: Roads to Memphis    Season 22, Episode 7
4/26/2010: My Lai    Season 22, Episode 6
4/19/2010: Earth Days    Season 22, Episode 5
3/1/2010: Dolley Madison    Season 22, Episode 4
2/8/2010: The Bombing of Germany    Season 22, Episode 3
1/25/2010: Wyatt Earp    Season 22, Episode 2
11/2/2009: Civilian Conservation Corps    Season 22, Episode 1
5/18/2009: The Kennedys: American Experience    Season 21, Episode 10
5/11/2009: Wounded Knee    Season 21, Episode 9
5/4/2009: Geronimo    Season 21, Episode 8
5/4/2009: Geronimo: American Experience
4/27/2009: Trail of Tears    Season 21, Episode 7
4/20/2009: Tecumseh's Vision    Season 21, Episode 6
4/13/2009: After the Mayflower    Season 21, Episode 5
2/23/2009: A Class Apart    Season 21, Episode 4
2/9/2009: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln    Season 21, Episode 3
2/2/2009: The Polio Crusade    Season 21, Episode 2
1/26/2009: The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer    Season 21, Episode 1
5/6/2008: George H. W. Bush    Season 20, Episode 10
5/5/2008: George H.W. Bush    Season 20, Episode 9
4/21/2008: Roberto Clemente    Season 20, Episode 8
4/14/2008: Walt Whitman    Season 20, Episode 7
3/31/2008: Minik, the Lost Eskimo    Season 20, Episode 6
2/25/2008: Buffalo Bill    Season 20, Episode 5
2/18/2008: Kit Carson    Season 20, Episode 4
2/4/2008: Grand Central    Season 20, Episode 3
1/14/2008: Oswald's Ghost    Season 20, Episode 1
5/14/2007: Alexander Hamilton    Season 19, Episode 13
4/23/2007: Summer of Love    Season 19, Episode 12
4/9/2007: Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple    Season 19, Episode 11
4/2/2007: Sister Aimee    Season 19, Episode 10
2/12/2007: New Orleans    Season 19, Episode 9
2/5/2007: The Living Weapon    Season 19, Episode 8
1/29/2007: The Berlin Airlift    Season 19, Episode 7
11/6/2006: The Gold Rush    Season 19, Episode 6
10/30/2006: The Great Fever    Season 19, Episode 5
10/23/2006: Test Tube Babies    Season 19, Episode 4
10/16/2006: Eyes on the Prize: Mississippi: Is This America? 1963-1964; Bridge to Freedom 1965    Season 19, Episode 3
10/9/2006: Eyes on the Prize: Ain't Scared of Your Jails 1960-1961; No Easy Walk 1961-1963    Season 19, Episode 2
10/2/2006: Eyes on the Prize: Awakenings 1954-1956; Fighting Back 1957-1962    Season 19, Episode 1
10/2/2006: Eyes on the Prize: Awakenings
5/22/2006: The Man Behind Hitler    Season 18, Episode 13
5/8/2006: Annie Oakley    Season 18, Episode 12
4/24/2006: The Alaska Pipeline    Season 18, Episode 11
4/10/2006: The Boy in the Bubble    Season 18, Episode 10
3/27/2006: Eugene O'Neill    Season 18, Episode 9
2/27/2006: Hijacked!    Season 18, Episode 8
2/6/2006: Jesse James    Season 18, Episode 7
1/30/2006: The Nuremberg Trials    Season 18, Episode 6
1/23/2006: John & Abigail Adams    Season 18, Episode 5
11/16/2005: Las Vegas: An Unconventional History    Season 18, Episode 4
11/14/2005: Las Vegas: An Unconventional History    Season 18, Episode 3
10/31/2005: Race to the Moon    Season 18, Episode 2
10/17/2005: Two Days in October    Season 18, Episode 1
5/23/2005: Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst    Season 17, Episode 12
5/9/2005: The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken    Season 17, Episode 11
5/2/2005: Victory in the Pacific    Season 17, Episode 10
4/25/2005: The Fall of Saigon    Season 17, Episode 9
4/18/2005: The Massie Affair    Season 17, Episode 8
4/11/2005: The Great Transatlantic Cable    Season 17, Episode 7
4/4/2005: Mary Pickford    Season 17, Episode 6
2/14/2005: Kinsey    Season 17, Episode 5
2/7/2005: Building the Alaska Highway    Season 17, Episode 4
1/31/2005: Fidel Castro    Season 17, Episode 3
10/18/2004: The Fight    Season 17, Episode 2
10/4/2004: RFK    Season 17, Episode 1
5/3/2004: Golden Gate Bridge    Season 16, Episode 9
4/19/2004: Patriots Day    Season 16, Episode 8
4/12/2004: Emma Goldman    Season 16, Episode 7
2/9/2004: Tupperware    Season 16, Episode 6
2/2/2004: Remember the Alamo    Season 16, Episode 5
1/19/2004: Citizen King    Season 16, Episode 4
1/13/2004: Reconstruction: The Second Civil War    Season 16, Episode 3
1/12/2004: Reconstruction: The Second Civil War    Season 16, Episode 2
9/8/2003: The Center of the World    Season 16, Episode 1
7/14/2003: Murder at Harvard    Season 15, Episode 13
7/7/2003: Bataan Rescue    Season 15, Episode 12
4/21/2003: Seabiscuit    Season 15, Episode 11
4/7/2003: Daughter From Danang    Season 15, Episode 10
2/24/2003: The Pill    Season 15, Episode 9
2/10/2003: Partners of the Heart    Season 15, Episode 8
1/27/2003: Transcontinental Railroad    Season 15, Episode 7
1/20/2003: The Murder of Emmett Till    Season 15, Episode 6
1/15/2003: Chicago: City of the Century - The Battle for Chicago    Season 15, Episode 5
1/14/2003: Chicago: City of the Century - The Revolution Has Begun    Season 15, Episode 4
1/13/2003: Chicago: City of the Century - Mud Hole to Metropolis    Season 15, Episode 3
11/12/2002: Jimmy Carter: Hostage    Season 15, Episode 2
11/11/2002: Jimmy Carter: Jimmy Who?    Season 15, Episode 1
11/11/2002: Jimmy Carter
5/12/2002: Ulysses S. Grant    Season 14, Episode 12
5/5/2002: Ulysses S. Grant    Season 14, Episode 11
4/28/2002: A Brilliant Madness    Season 14, Episode 10
4/21/2002: Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film    Season 14, Episode 9
2/24/2002: Public Enemy # 1    Season 14, Episode 8
2/17/2002: Monkey Trial    Season 14, Episode 7
2/10/2002: Zoot Suit Riots    Season 14, Episode 6
1/27/2002: Miss America    Season 14, Episode 5
1/20/2002: Mount Rushmore    Season 14, Episode 4
1/13/2002: Woodrow Wilson    Season 14, Episode 3
1/6/2002: Woodrow Wilson    Season 14, Episode 2
11/11/2001: War Letters    Season 14, Episode 1
8/5/2001: Streamliners: America's Lost Trains
4/23/2001: Stephen Foster
4/16/2001: Fatal Flood
4/2/2001: Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
2/21/2001: Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided
2/21/2001: This Frightful War
2/21/2001: Blind with Weeping
2/20/2001: Shattered
2/20/2001: The Dearest of All Things
2/20/2001: Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided
2/19/2001: Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided
2/19/2001: Ambition
2/19/2001: We Are Elected
2/13/2001: Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
11/14/2000: Return with Honor
10/30/2000: Secrets of a Master Builder
10/24/2000: The Rockefellers
10/16/2000: The Rockefellers
5/23/2000: The Wizard of Photography
5/9/2000: Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life
5/2/2000: Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory
4/25/2000: George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire
4/24/2000: George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire
2/28/2000: John Brown's Holy War
2/15/2000: The Duel
2/1/2000: Nixon's China Game
1/25/2000: Houdini
1/10/2000: Eleanor Roosevelt
5/24/1999: Fly Girls
4/5/1999: Lost in the Grand Canyon
2/22/1999: Meltdown at Three Mile Island
2/15/1999: Rescue at Sea
2/8/1999: Alone on the Ice
1/18/1999: Hoover Dam
2/23/1998: Reagan
2/23/1998: Reagan
10/6/1997: Truman
10/5/1997: Truman
5/12/1997: Gold Fever
2/10/1997: Big Dream, Small Screen
10/28/1996: Amelia Earhart
10/16/1995: Murder of the Century
10/12/1994: FDR: The Grandest Job in the World/The Juggler
10/11/1994: FDR: The Center of the World/Fear Itself
5/25/1994: D-Day
1/26/1994: Malcolm X: Make It Plain
10/15/1993: Nixon
2/22/1993: French Dance Tonight
10/28/1992: The Donner Party
12/17/1990: Insanity on Trial
11/12/1990: The Crash of 1929
10/1/1990: Lindbergh
4/12/1990: Riding the Rails
12/19/1989: Forbidden City, USA
12/20/1988: Hearts and Hands
11/29/1988: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Revisited
Roots of Resistance: Story of the Underground Railroad
Battle for Wilderness
Forever Baseball
The Great Air Race of 1924
Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo
Adam Clayton Powell
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
Great War of 1918
Ida B. Wells: Passion for Justice
Sins of Our Mothers: The Story of Emeline
That Rhythm, Those Blues
Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis up Close
Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
Eric Sevareid: Not So Wild a Dream
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
Mr. Sears Catalogue
Orphans of the Storm
Radio Bikini
Johnstown Flood
Pearl Harbor
Scandalous Mayor
Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
LBJ
Duke Ellington: Reminiscing in Tempo
Love in the Cold War
In the White Man's Image
The Quiz Show Scandal
Wild by Law
Barnum's Big Top
LBJ
Los Mineros
Wildcatter: A Story of Texas Oil
After the Crash
The Iron Road
Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
Journey to America
Eisenhower
Ballad of the Mountain Man
Demon Rum
The Kennedys
The Kennedys
The Kennedys
If You Knew Sousa
Liberators Fighting on Two Fronts in WWII
Sit Down and Fight Walter Reuther and the Rise of the Auto Workers' Union
Knute Rockne and His Fighting Irish
Goin' Back to T'Town
The Hunt for Pancho Villa
America 1900
Around the World in 72 Days
Race for the Superbomb
New York Underground
The Telephone
The Battle of the Bulge
A Midwife's Tale
Influenza 1918
Surviving the Dust Bowl
Hawaii's Last Queen
The Orphan Trains
Spy in the Sky
The Wright Stuff
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
Simple Justice
Guts and Glory
MacArthur: The Politics of War
Vietnam: A Television History (Homefront USA)
Family Gathering
Eudora Welty, One Writers Beginnings
God Bless America and Poland Too
Coney Island
The World That Moses Built
G-Men: The Rise of J. Edgar Hoover
Last Stand at Little Big Horn
George Washington: The Man Who Wouldn't Be King
Hurricane of '38
Vietnam: A Television History (TET)
Truman: Accident of Democracy
Mr. Miami Beach
Ishi: The Last Yahi Indian
America and the Holocaust---Deceit and Indifference
Truman: The Moon, the Stars and the Planets
LBJ
Reagan
MacArthur: Destiny
Satellite Sky
Midnight Ramble
Yosemite: Fate of Heaven
Views of the Vanishing Frontier
Radio Priest
The Way West: Approach of Civilization
Telegrams from the Dead
One Woman, One Vote
The Way West: Westward, the Course of Empire Takes Its Way
The Way West: Ghost Dance
The Way West: The War for the Black Hills
The Way West
The Way West
"The Great San Francisco Earthquake;" "The Johnstown Flood;" "The Hurricane of '38"
Edison's Miracle of Light
Chicago 1968
Daley, the Last Boss
TR: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
TR: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
FDR
TR: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie
Vietnam: A Television History (Roots of War/America's Mandarin)
Vietnam: A Television History (America's Enemy)
Vietnam: A Television History (Vietnamizing the War)
Vietnam: A Television History (End of the Tunnel)
Vietnam: A Television History (Cambodia and Laos)
Vietnam: A Television History (Peace Is at Hand)
Vietnam: A Television History (LBJ Goes to War)
Vietnam: A Television History (America Takes Charge)
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Premiered: October 04, 1988, on PBS
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Premise: This much-honored PBS documentary series explores American history, one topic or person at a time. Its Peabody Award winners include profiles of FDR and Malcolm X, and such diverse topics as Nixon's 1972 trip to China, the controversy surrounding `Citizen Kane' when it was released, and the Battle of the Bulge. In addition, its Scottsboro Boys film won an Emmy, and seven entries (including the Scottsboro and Kane films) earned Oscar nominations.

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