Citizen Kane (1941)

The movie opens with a fade-in on foggy, forlorn Xanadu, a palatial estate off the Florida coast, where Charles Foster Kane, one of the world's wealthiest and most powerful men, dies whispering the word "Rosebud." Fade-out, then a flat cut to a "March of Time"-like documentary which presents a thumbnail sketch of the life of publishing magnate Kane. Managing editor Rawlston insists that the Kane obituary film is missing something and "needs an angle." Rawlston orders his top reporter to discover what "Rosebud" means, and Thompson's search leads him to five key players in Kane's private life. In the end, Thompson has nothing to show for all his legwork except a jigsaw puzzle with a missing piece. The viewer, however, has better luck, and the mystery is resolved by the story's end. 

Edition Details:
• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby
• Commentary by Orson Welles biographer Peter Bogdanovich
• Commentary by Roger Ebert
• Theatrical trailer(s)
• Disc 1:
• Feature Film
• 1941 Movie Premiere Newsreel
• Gallery of storyboards, rare photos, alternate ad campaign, studio and personal correspondence, call sheets and other memorabilia
• Disc 2:
• Two-Hour Documentary: The Battle Over Citizen Kane, details the power struggle between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst
• Number of discs: 2