Edward R. Murrow
Birthday: 1908-04-25
Place of Birth: Guilford County, North Carolina, USA
Biography: Edward Roscoe Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division of CBS. During the war he recruited and worked closely with a team of war correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys.
Movies
The Movie Orgy
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloop...
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Edward R. Murrow - The Best Of Person To Person
Join television legend and renowned broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow for this compilation of hi...
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Is Everybody Listening?
A documentary about the 82% of US citizens that listen to the radio for their entertainment, news an...
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The Challenge of Ideas
Various celebrities and news-media figures discuss the polarization of politics between the Western ...
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Deconstructing Dad: The Music, Machines and Mystery of Raymond Scott
His filmmaker son probes the professional and private lives of his remote but fascinating father: ba...
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This Is England
Edward R. Murrow narrates Humphrey Jennings' short documentary about life in England during wartime....
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Satchmo the Great
In this 1957 biography film of the jazz-great Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, he and his band tour the wo...
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Harvest of Shame
In this CBS News production broadcast on Thanksgiving 1960, Edward R. Murrow points out the plight o...
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Mike Wallace Is Here
For over half a century, 60 Minutes' fearsome newsman Mike Wallace went head-to-head with the world'...
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Television: The First Fifty Years
Trace the history of television and its impact on American culture with clips, newsreels, and exclus...
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Around the World in 80 Days
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the wor...
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Thomas Hart Benton
Thomas Hart Benton's paintings were energetic and uncompromising. Today his works are in museums, bu...
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Dover
Documentary short featuring a visit by American newsman Edward R. Murrow to the English town of Dove...
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Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and ...
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Sink the Bismarck!
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz E...
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Survival Under Atomic Attack
A Civil Defense film that focuses on what the average American can do to protect himself if caught o...
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Maria by Callas
Told through performances, TV interviews, home movies, family photographs, private letters and unpub...
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Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'
Documentary about how the creative energies of Darryl F. Zanuck and John Ford combined to forge an e...
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The Soul of America
Writer, journalist, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and presidential biographer John Meacham offers...
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Ethel
Filmmaker Rory Kennedy interviews her mother, Ethel Kennedy, who discusses family, marriage and poli...
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The Night America Trembled
A recreation and commentary on how people reacted to the radio broadcast of The War Of The Worlds in...
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McCarthy
"McCarthy" chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who came to power ...
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One Plane, One Bomb
This short,produced by the United States Civil Defense Department, while shot in the style of Edward...
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Small world: Vivien Leigh
Acclaimed film and theatre Actress Vivien Leigh, producer Samuel Goldwyn and critic Kenneth Tynan jo...
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The Eighty Days
Humphrey Jennings’s Crown Film Unit short on the summer 1944 V-1 “doodlebug” campaign, tracking a sa...
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