Live from Baghdad (2002)

Live from Baghdad (2002)

Breaking News - Making History 2002-12-07 United States of America 108 Min. PG-13
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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 is Robert Wiener
Robert Wiener
Helena Bonham Carter is Ingrid Formanek
Ingrid Formanek
Joshua Leonard is Mark Biello
Mark Biello
Lili Taylor is Judy Parker
Judy Parker
David Suchet is Naji Al-Hadithi
Naji Al-Hadithi
Bruce McGill is Peter Arnett
Peter Arnett
Michael Murphy is Tom Johnson
Tom Johnson
Robert Wisdom is Bernard Shaw
Bernard Shaw
Paul Guilfoyle is Ed Turner
Clark Gregg is Eason Jordan
Eason Jordan
Hamish Linklater is Richard Roth
Richard Roth
John Carroll Lynch is Josh Holliman
Josh Holliman