Startlingly prescient in its anticipation of today’s outrage-driven news cycle, the seminal satire Network screens for one night only this summer as part of our Way Back Wednesday series, celebrating the cinema of 1976.

At a struggling television network, ambitious executive Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway) finds herself with a hit on her hands when disgruntled newscaster Howard Beale (Peter Finch) goes off script, transforming himself into a mad-as-hell prophet railing against the ills of modern society.

Winner of four Academy Awards® (including Best Actor for Peter Finch and Best Actress for Faye Dunaway), Lumet's film remains as powerful and urgent almost fifty years after its release.