The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty - Season 1
A dramatic three-part series tells the incredible story of Rupert Murdoch's Empire, interweaving his behind-the-scenes influence on world events with the personal battle for power at the heart of his own family.
21 May 1949, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
29 December 1953
11 July 1957, Poole, Dorset, England, UK
31 May 1938, Prestatyn, Denbighshire, Wales, UK
April 13, 1940 in London, England, UK
24 September 1972, Cirencester, England, UK
25 May 1957, Keighley, Yorkshire, England, UK
December 31, 1946 in England, UK
May 14, 1963 in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK
30 March 1965, Newick, East Sussex, England, UK
9 September 1960, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
3 April 1964, Farnborough, Kent, England, UK
March 21, 1933 in Swansea, Wales, UK
July 15, 2020
This three-part series, a sort of Dynasty without the shoulder pads, was the latest attempt to unravel the enigma, and it showed promising signs of having the chutzpah to go further than its predecessors. .
July 23, 2020
The pie seemed to signal the power was waning, but this saga has a whole episode left.
July 23, 2020
Maybe there's nothing else to give away. Maybe under all that viciousness and egomania, there's just more viciousness and egomania.
July 23, 2020
If you're telling a much-told story, why exactly are you telling it?
July 15, 2020
Come to these films expecting glamour and you might be disappointed... No, the juice, for me, lies elsewhere.
July 23, 2020
It's a tricky business, trying to understand someone as publicity-shy as media mogul Rupert Murdoch. He is, this documentary asserts in its opening frames, an enigma. Tricky word, enigma.
July 15, 2020
Director Jamie Roberts and his team had done their due diligence in the research department, turning up a trove of nuggets from the archives interspersed with pithy interviews.
July 23, 2020
In fact, as the show went on it became a fascinating examination, not of Murdoch, but of the people who make it their business seriously to love and/or hate him.
July 15, 2020
This documentary tells a familiar story, but it's an enthralling portrait of a man for whom the world is never enough.
