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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 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.

The documentary has interviews with notorious Brazilians, such as Chico Buarque, Leonel Brizola and Luis Inácio Lula da Silva.

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.

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