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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.
Updated May 10 2020
Cast
Helena Bonham Carter
Ingrid Formanek
Michael Keaton
Robert Wiener
Lili Taylor
Judy Parker
Michael Murphy
Tom Johnson
Clark Gregg
Eason Jordan
Bruce McGill
Peter Arnett
David Suchet
Naji Al-Hadithi
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Crew
John Papsidera
Casting
Joe Hutshing
Editor
Mick Jackson
Director
Richard Hoover
Production Design
Steve Jablonsky
Original Music Composer
Ivan Strasburg
Director of Photography
Ahmed Abounouom
Art Direction
