Live from Baghdad (2002)
1h 48m
Running Time
December 7, 2002Release Date
Live from Baghdad (2002)
1h 48m
Running Time
December 7, 2002Release Date
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Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Michael Keaton
Robert Wiener
Helena Bonham Carter
Ingrid Formanek
Joshua Leonard
Mark Biello
Lili Taylor
Judy Parker
David Suchet
Naji Al-Hadithi
Bruce McGill
Peter Arnett
Michael Murphy
Tom Johnson
Robert Wisdom
Bernard Shaw
Paul Guilfoyle
Ed Turner
Hamish Linklater
Richard Roth
Clark Gregg
Eason Jordan
Michael Cudlitz
Tom Murphy
Mick Jackson
Director
John Carroll Lynch
Josh Holliman
Robert Wiener
Writer
Richard Chapman
Writer
Pamela Sinha
Fatima
John Patrick Shanley
Writer
Matt Keeslar
Nic Robertson
Timothy J. Sexton
Writer
Kurt Fuller
Inky
George W. Perkins
Producer
David Kaye
Ben Dupont
Steve Jablonsky
Composer
Jimmy Palumbo
News Producer
Ivan Strasburg
Cinematographer
David Shatraw
Joe Wilson
Peter Jason
Stu
Joe Hutshing
Editor
John Papsidera
CastingDirector
Brian George
Al Rasheed Manager
Jerry Haleva
Saddam Hussein
Richard Hoover
ProductionDesigner
Mark Arnott
Bob Furnad
Inny Clemons
CNN Deskman
Chet Grissom
Will King
Val Lauren
CNN Technician
Kymberly Newberry
Secretary
Kurt Hargan
CNN Control Room Manager
Paul Tranghese
CNN Stage Manager
Tom Amandes
Joe Erlichman
Thomas Crawford
Nigel Babcock
James Waterston
Eric
Bill Moseley
Rex
Roy Werner
Bob
John Ciccolini
1st Journalist
Andrew Borba
2nd Journalist
Jack Armstrong
3rd Journalist
Will Radford
British Journalist #1
Kevin Brief
Singing Brit #2
Steven Houska
British Journalist #3
Murphy Dunne
Bob Vinton
Lee Dawson
Raymond Page
Michael James Kacey
American Hostage #1
Craig Anton
American Hostage #2
Jason Antoon
Mr. Mazin
Carole Davis
Mrs. Awatiff
Shaun Toub
Sadoun Al-Jenabi
Mahryah Shain
Al Rasheed Waiter
Joel Swetow
Taxi Driver
Alan Desatti
Iraqi Guard #1
Ofer Samra
Iraqi Bomb Shelter Guard
Jay Harik
Sadam's Translator
David Franco
Saddam's Security Man
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Wiki.
Live from Baghdad is a 2002 American television war drama film directed by Mick Jackson and co-written by Robert Wiener, based on Wiener's book of the same title. The film premiered on HBO on December 7, 2002, during the prelude stage of the Iraq War.
Michael Keaton stars as Wiener, a CNN on-location producer in Baghdad, Iraq during the Gulf War in 1991. The film focuses on the news media's (primarily CNN's) coverage of the war. Fundamentally an action–drama, the characters grapple with the ethics and implications of 24-hour journalism in the days leading up to and during the United States-led bombing of Baghdad.
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