Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar - Season 1

The story of Elizabeth's rise to fame during Hollywood's Golden Age. As a young actor, Elizabeth's life is tightly controlled by the studio, but after a disastrous first marriage, she decides to live life on her own terms.

With insights from fellow stars Dame Joan Collins, Sharon Stone, and Kim Kardashian, as well as from Elizabeth's god-daughter Paris Jackson, actor and former boyfriend George Hamilton, fellow child star Margaret O'Brien, her son Chris Wilding and granddaughter Naomi Wilding.

Elizabeth suffers heartbreak and finds herself caught up in scandal. But then she lands the most iconic role of her career, and her fame reaches dangerous new heights.

Her work as an actor is overshadowed by her private life as she embarks on a century-defining love affair. With all eyes on ‘Liz and Dick', can Elizabeth survive the pressures of being the most famous woman in the world?

Elizabeth's seventh marriage takes her to Washington DC. But she struggles to reinvent herself as a senator's wife. Her addiction to painkillers and alcohol grows, and her family are forced to intervene.

But then, after the death from Aids of close friend Rock Hudson and a family member falling ill with the disease, Taylor turns campaigner, raising millions for Aids research and changing public perceptions of the disease, saving countless lives in the process.