Overview
Edward R. Murrow
Known For
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
Newly discovered interviews with Elizabeth Taylor and unprecedented access to...
The Soul of America
Writer, journalist, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and presidential biographer John Meacham...
Maria by Callas
Told through performances, TV interviews, home movies, family photographs, private...
Deconstructing Dad: The Music, Machines and Mystery of Raymond Scott
His filmmaker son probes the professional and private lives of...
Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'
Documentary about how the creative energies of Darryl F. Zanuck...
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.