If you’d like to see a balanced overview of the life of a first rate journalist, I recommend the 1997 documentary Edward R. Murrow: Voice Of America.
This fifty minute long piece was produced as an installment for the Biography television series, now available on DVD.
I’m a bit exhausted today, so here’s a link to information on Film & History’s site.
http://www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory/documentary/americanhistory1/murrow.php