Set during the early days of US broadcast, George Clooney’s six-times Oscar-nominated Good Night, and Good Luck chronicles the real-life conflict between television news pioneer Edward E. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy. With a desire to report the facts and enlighten the public, the ground-breaking Murrow and his dedicated staff defy corporate and sponsorship pressures to examine the lies and scaremongering tactics perpetrated by McCarthy during his communist ‘witch-hunts’.
