Thought provoking and stylish

Rating: 8/10 (25 June 2006)

A 50s biopic about the US Senator McCarthy's communist witch hunt and the battle between him and TV journalist Edward Murrow. Shot in black & white, it's style is what first grabs you. The story is interjected with period stock footage with most of the action confined to the TV studios of CBS. It really does show just how free the so called "land of the free" really was (and maybe still is?).
The movie feels almost like a fly on the wall documentary, it's realism is superb as is the performances from the actors. It genuinely 'feels' like the fifties (at least what I'd imagine them to be like since I wasn't there).
I'll probably not want to buy it on DVD as I feel it's one of those 'see once' movies.