Howard Beale (Peter Finch), a veteran newscaster, is informed by his ratings-driven network executives that he is about to be dumped because he "skews old."
In turn, he uses his next broadcast to announce that he is going to commit suicide on his final program.
An ambitious programming executive (Faye Dunnaway) convinces her superiors to let the broadcast go ahead, hoping that the final event will give the network its greatest ratings ever.
This media satire, directed by Sidney Lumet from a brilliantly incisive script by Paddy Chayefsky, is an X-ray of the corrupted soul of a corporate-dominated America, startlingly prescient in its anticipation of today’s outrage-driven news cycle.
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