Live from Baghdad backdrop
Live from Baghdad poster
Trailer
Live from Baghdad
6.7
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1h 48m
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2002
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Released
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.

Cast
Michael Keaton poster
Michael Keaton
Robert Wiener
Helena Bonham Carter poster
Helena Bonham Carter
Ingrid Formanek
Joshua Leonard poster
Joshua Leonard
Mark Biello
Lili Taylor poster
Lili Taylor
Judy Parker
David Suchet poster
David Suchet
Naji Al-Hadithi
Bruce McGill poster
Bruce McGill
Peter Arnett
Michael Murphy poster
Michael Murphy
Tom Johnson
Robert Wisdom poster
Robert Wisdom
Bernard Shaw
Paul Guilfoyle poster
Paul Guilfoyle
Ed Turner
Clark Gregg poster
Clark Gregg
Eason Jordan
Hamish Linklater poster
Hamish Linklater
Richard Roth
John Carroll Lynch poster
John Carroll Lynch
Josh Holliman
Michael Cudlitz poster
Michael Cudlitz
Tom Murphy
Pamela Sinha poster
Pamela Sinha
Fatima
Matt Keeslar poster
Matt Keeslar
Nic Robertson
Kurt Fuller poster
Kurt Fuller
Inky
David Kaye poster
David Kaye
Ben Dupont
Jimmy Palumbo poster
Jimmy Palumbo
News Producer
David Shatraw poster
David Shatraw
Joe Wilson
Peter Jason poster
Peter Jason
Stu

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