Live from Baghdad (2002)
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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as Robert Wiener
as Ingrid Formanek
as Mark Biello
as Judy Parker
as Naji Al-Hadithi
as Peter Arnett
as Tom Johnson
as Bernard Shaw
as Ed Turner
as Eason Jordan
as Richard Roth
as Josh Holliman
as Tom Murphy
as Fatima
as Nic Robertson
as Inky
as Ben Dupont
as News Producer
as Joe Wilson
as Stu
as Al Rasheed Manager
as Saddam Hussein
as Bob Furnad
as CNN Deskman
as Will King
as CNN Technician
as Secretary
as CNN Control Room Manager
as CNN Stage Manager
as Joe Erlichman
as Nigel Babcock
as Eric
as Rex
as Bob
as 1st Journalist
as 2nd Journalist
as 3rd Journalist
as British Journalist #1
as Singing Brit #2
as British Journalist #3
as Bob Vinton
as Raymond Page
as American Hostage #1
as American Hostage #2
as Mr. Mazin
as Mrs. Awatiff
as Sadoun Al-Jenabi
as Al Rasheed Waiter
as Taxi Driver
as Iraqi Guard #1
as Iraqi Bomb Shelter Guard
as Sadam's Translator
as Saddam's Security Man
as Kuwaiti Doctor
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