Live from Baghdad
Live from Baghdad
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.
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Cast
Michael Keaton
Helena Bonham Carter
Joshua Leonard
Lili Taylor
David Suchet
Bruce McGill
Michael Murphy
Robert Wisdom
Paul Guilfoyle
Clark Gregg
Hamish Linklater
John Carroll Lynch
Michael Cudlitz
Pamela Sinha
Matt Keeslar
Kurt Fuller
David Kaye
Jimmy Palumbo
David Shatraw
Peter Jason
Brian George
Jerry Haleva
Mark Arnott
Inny Clemons
Chet Grissom
Val Lauren
Kymberly Newberry
Kurt Hargan
Paul Tranghese
Tom Amandes
Thomas Crawford
James Waterston
Bill Moseley
Roy Werner
John Ciccolini
Andrew Borba
Jack Armstrong
Will Radford
Kevin Brief
Steven Houska
Murphy Dunne
Lee Dawson
Michael James Kacey
Craig Anton
Jason Antoon
Carole Davis
Shaun Toub
Mahryah Shain
Joel Swetow
Alan Desatti
Ofer Samra
Jay Harik
David Franco
Castulo Guerra
Crew
Richard Hoover
John Papsidera
Joe Hutshing
Mick Jackson
Ivan Strasburg
Ahmed Abounouom
Matthew C. Jacobs
