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Live from Baghdad

Live from Baghdad

(2002)

Overview

A group of CNN reporters wrestle with journalistic ethics and the life-and-death perils of reporting during the Gulf War.A Directors Guild Award-winning movie for director Mick Jackson, starring Michael Keaton and Helena Bonham Carter. In 1990, CNN was a 24-hour news network in search of a 24-hour story. They were about to find it in Baghdad. Veteran CNN producer Robert Wiener and his longtime producing partner Ingrid Formanek find themselves in Iraq on the eve of war. Up against the big three networks, Weiner and his team are rebels with a cause, willing to take risks to get the biggest stories and - unlike their rivals - take them live at a moment's notice. As Baghdad becomes an inevitable US target, one by one the networks pull out of the city until only the crew from CNN remains. With a full-scale war soon to be launched all around them, and CNN ready to broadcast whatever happens 24 hours a day, Wiener and Formanek are about to risk their lives for the story of a lifetime.

Featured Crew

  1. Director : Mick Jackson
  2. Producer : George W. Perkins
  3. Writer : Richard Chapman,Timothy J. Sexton,John Patrick Shanley
  4. Editor : Joe Hutshing
  5. Cast : Michael Keaton,Helena Bonham Carter,Joshua Leonard,Lili Taylor,David Suchet,Bruce McGill,Michael Murphy,Robert Wisdom,Paul Guilfoyle,Clark Gregg,Hamish Linklater,John Carroll Lynch,Michael Cudlitz,Pamela Sinha,Matt Keeslar,Kurt Fuller,David Kaye,Jimmy Palumbo,David Shatraw,Peter Jason,Brian George,Jerry Haleva,Mark Arnott,Inny Clemons,Chet Grissom,Val Lauren,Kymberly Newberry,Kurt Hargan,Paul Tranghese,Tom Amandes,Thomas Crawford,James Waterston,Bill Moseley,Roy Werner,John Ciccolini,Andrew Borba,Jack Armstrong,Will Radford,Kevin Brief,Steven Houska,Murphy Dunne,Lee Dawson,Michael James Kacey,Craig Anton,Jason Antoon,Carole Davis,Shaun Toub,Mahryah Shain,Joel Swetow,Alan Desatti,Ofer Samra,Jay Harik,David Franco,Castulo Guerra

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Original TitleLive from Baghdad

Status Released

Release Information

  • 2002-12-07

Original LanguageUnknown

Runtime 01h 48m

Production CompaniesHBO Films,Industry Entertainment

Genres

  • Drama
  • War
  • TV Movie

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