Year			1976
Genre			Drama
Length			2:01
Director			Sidney Lumet
Writer			Paddy Chayefsky
Company			Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Starring			Faye Dunaway William Holden Peter Finch Robert Duvall Wesley Addy Ned Beatty Show more... Faye Dunaway William Holden Peter Finch Robert Duvall Wesley Addy Ned Beatty Arthur Burghardt Bill Burrows John Carpenter Jordan Charney Kathy Cronkite Ed Crowley Jerome Dempsey Conchata Ferrell Gene Gross

Howard Beale, the dean of newscasters at the United Television Network, is put out to pasture because he too old. Network executive Max Schumacher, Howard's best friend, is forced to deliver the bad news. Beale can't stomach the idea of losing his 25-year post as anchorman simply because of age, so in his next broadcast he announces to the viewers that he's going to commit suicide on his final program. What he doesn't count on is a media blitz surrounding his circumstance.