 This documentary, produced for PBS  _"American Experience, The" (1988)_ (qv) series, chronicles the struggles between filmmaker  Orson Welles  (qv) and newspaper tycoon  William Randolph Hearst  (qv) over the making and release of _Citizen Kane (1941)_ (qv), whose protagonist (Charles Foster Kane) was allegedly a barely fictionalized Hearst. Interviews with contemporaries of Hearst and Welles reveal the intense campaign to suppress the film and ultimately ruin the career of its director.