Live from Baghdad
(2002)

Breaking News - Making History

Released: 2002-12-07

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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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Michael Keaton

as Robert Wiener

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Helena Bonham Carter

as Ingrid Formanek

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Joshua Leonard

as Mark Biello

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Lili Taylor

as Judy Parker

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David Suchet

as Naji Al-Hadithi

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Bruce McGill

as Peter Arnett

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Michael Murphy

as Tom Johnson

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Robert Wisdom

as Bernard Shaw

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Paul Guilfoyle

as Ed Turner

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Clark Gregg

as Eason Jordan

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Hamish Linklater

as Richard Roth

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John Carroll Lynch

as Josh Holliman

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Matt Keeslar

as Nic Robertson

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David Kaye

as Ben Dupont

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Jimmy Palumbo

as News Producer

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Ivan Strasburg

Director of Photography

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Steve Jablonsky

Original Music Composer

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Geyer Kosinski

Executive Producer

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Karen Golden

Script Supervisor

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Rosalie Swedlin

Executive Producer

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Ahmed Abounouom

Art Direction

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Brian Kasch

Set Decoration

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Sara Colleton

Executive Producer

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Juanita Diane Feeney

Associate Producer

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