Three half documentary Elizabeth Taylor: Insurgent Celebrity profiles actor, feminist, enterprise mogul, activist Elizabeth Taylor who broke the mould and re-wrote the foundations of movie star.

Instructed by way of unheard tapes and by shut household and pals, together with Dame Joan Collins. It additionally options Kim Kardashian who’s a producer of the collection.

Season One, Episode One:
As a younger actor, Elizabeth lands the starring position in MGM’s smash hit movie Nationwide Velvet -but as she will get older her life is tightly managed by the studio, who dictate all the pieces from what she eats to who she dates – stage-managing her first marriage to Conrad ‘Nicky’ Hilton as a publicity stunt to advertise her starring position in Father Of The Bride. However the marriage is a catastrophe and Elizabeth decides to dwell life on her personal phrases, marrying British actor and producer Michael Wilding, father of her youngsters Michael and Chris, and producing a few of her finest work – together with Big with James Dean and Rock Hudson, who would turn into two of her closest and most essential pals.

Divorcing Michael, in 1957 Elizabeth marries Mike Todd, a brash, charismatic movie producer. However simply two weeks into filming Cat On A Sizzling Tin Roof, which was to earn her crucial acclaim, Elizabeth receives devastating information, which adjustments all the pieces… With insights from Elizabeth’s son Chris Wilding, her granddaughter Naomi Wilding, god-daughter Paris Jackson, pals Sharon Stone, Dame Joan Collins, George Hamilton and fellow little one star Margaret O’Brien.

Wednesday, 2 October at 8.25pm on SBS.