A wasted opportunity

Rating: 3/10 (25 January 2009)

Are they going to make another film to show the rest of the story? Considering that it was made in 2005, how many people in the audience would be expected to know who Ed Murrow was? There was no background to Murrow or to the See it Now show. There was also no real background given to McCarthy, HUAC or the witch-hunts. There is a brief mention of Murrow's broadcasts from London during the blitz. But how many people remember them? And how many remember how damaging McCarthy and the witch-hunts were?
And what about the rest of Murrow's career and his life after McCarthy? I found this film to be barely adequate and most disappointing. Certainly not worthy of all the Oscar & BAFTA nominations it got. Stick to the 1986 TV movie with Daniel J. Travanti - Murrow (1986) (TV)