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Live from Baghdad (2002)

Live from Baghdad (2002)

108 minutes EN Drama , War , TV Movie
Breaking News - Making History
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

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
Clark Gregg
Eason Jordan
Hamish Linklater
Richard Roth
John Carroll Lynch
Josh Holliman
Michael Cudlitz
Tom Murphy
Matt Keeslar
Nic Robertson
David Kaye
Ben Dupont
Jimmy Palumbo
News Producer
David Shatraw
Joe Wilson
Brian George
Al Rasheed Manager
Jerry Haleva
Saddam Hussein
Mark Arnott
Bob Furnad
Inny Clemons
CNN Deskman

Crew

Ivan Strasburg
Director of Photography
Richard Hoover
Production Design
Steve Jablonsky
Original Music Composer
Ahmed Abounouom
Art Direction
Matthew C. Jacobs
Art Direction
Louise Frogley
Costume Design
Brian Kasch
Set Decoration
Mick Jackson
Director
Karen Golden
Script Supervisor
Rosalie Swedlin
Executive Producer
Sara Colleton
Executive Producer
Geyer Kosinski
Executive Producer
Thomas D. Herman
Co-Producer