Beyond Citizen Kane

For many years, the BBC documentary "Beyond Citizen Kane" remained the programme that a lot of people had heard about, but very few had actually watched. It explained how Rede Globo had become the most influential TV network in Brazil and one of the biggest in the world. It also unveiled the connections between its president at the time, Roberto Marinho, and the Brazilian military government in the 1960s.

The documentary never really made it to local screens. A court order demanded that all existing copies were to be confiscated, and for many years the only way of getting hold of one was through a friend or relative who had recorded it from British television.

And then came the internet... I came across a video link that took me to a partly-dubbed, partly-subtitled copy, and although some things have changed since the programme was first aired, it is definitely worth watching. 15 years later, not much has changed...