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Actors: Robert Duvall , Ned Beatty , Faye Dunaway , William Holden , Conchata Ferrell , Wesley Addy , John Carpenter , Peter Finch , Arthur Burghardt , Jordan Charney , Ed Crowley , Jerome Dempsey , Gene Gross , Kathy Cronkite , Bill Burrows

Director: Sidney Lumet

IMDB Rate: 8.1 out of 10 (30865 votes)

Plot Summary:In 1975 terrorist violence is the stuff of network nightly news programming and the corporate structure of the UBS television network is changing. Meanwhile, Howard Beale, the aging UBS news anchor, has lost his once strong ratings share and so the network fires him. Beale reacts in an unexpected way. We then see how this affects the fortunes of Beale, his coworkers (Max Schumacher and Diana Christensen), and the network.