

16/09/2005
The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.

David Strathairn
as Edward R. Murrow

Patricia Clarkson
as Shirley Wershba

George Clooney
as Fred Friendly

Jeff Daniels
as Sig Mickelson

Robert Downey Jr.
as Joe Wershba

Frank Langella
as William Paley

Ray Wise
as Don Hollenbeck

Robert John Burke
as Charlie Mack

Reed Diamond
as John Aaron

Tate Donovan
as Jesse Zousmer

Grant Heslov
as Don Hewitt

Tom McCarthy
as Palmer Williams

Matt Ross
as Eddie Scott

Rose Abdoo
as Mili Lerner

Alex Borstein
as Natalie

Peter Jacobson
as Jimmy

Robert Knepper
as Don Surine

Dianne Reeves
as Jazz Singer

Peter Martin
as Pianist

Christoph Luty
as Bassist

Jeff Hamilton
as Drummer

Matt Catingub
as Saxophonist

Glenn Morshower
as Colonel Anderson

Don Creech
as Colonel Jenkins

Helen Slayton-Hughes
as Mary

Simon Helberg
as CBS Page

JD Cullum
as Stage Manager

John Kepley
as CBS Lawyer #1

David Paul Christian
as CBS Lawyer #2

Joyce Lasley
as Make-Up Girl

Bill Blair
as TV Studio Crewman (uncredited)

Joseph Dowd
as Reporter (uncredited)

Bruna Matsin
as Sig Mickelson's Wife (uncredited)

Katharine Phillips Moser
as Jesse's Wife (uncredited)

Alexana Thomas
as Senator's Wife (uncredited)

Dave Thompson
as News Photographer (uncredited)

Rochelle Warner
as Speech Wife (uncredited)

Roy Cohn
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dwight D. Eisenhower
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Robert F. Kennedy
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Liberace
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joseph McCarthy
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

John L. McClellan
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Milo Radulovich
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joseph N. Welch
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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