Considered by thousands to be the best film of all time, this movie tells the story of multimillionaire newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles).
When Kane dies dies alone in his lavish mansion, Xanadu, he speaks a single word while droping a snow-scene ball which he was examining at the time. The word was "Rosebud".
In a desperate attempt to find the meaning of the word, a newsreel reporter called Jebediah Leland (Joseph Cotten) tracks down all the people he worked and lived with.
The friends and colleagues tell their stories which is shown to us in a series of flashbacks that details how Kane amassed his fortune and turning full circle at the end.
Citizen Kane is a Film programme that first aired in 1941 and has been classified a U certificate.
