Overview
- Netflix premiered Dynasty: The Murdochs on March 13, a four-part documentary examining Rupert Murdoch’s media empire and family rifts.
- Director Liz Garbus assembles veteran reporters and former insiders, while the Murdoch family declined to participate on camera.
- The series relies on thousands of previously unseen documents, emails and texts to chart decades of dealmaking and internal conflict.
- Episodes revisit tabloid ‘dark arts,’ including phone-hacking accounts and claims of stolen celebrity photographs by former News of the World staff.
- The film situates the recent resolution of the succession fight, including reporting of a $3.3 billion court settlement and a deal granting Lachlan Murdoch control through 2050 as siblings receive major payouts.