Live from Baghdad

Live from Baghdad

108 mins | Drama, War, TV Movie | Dec. 7, 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.

Live from Baghdad

108 mins | Drama, War, TV Movie | Dec. 7, 2002

Live from Baghdad
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.
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers Industry Entertainment, HBO Films
Original title Live from Baghdad
Directors Karen Golden, Mick Jackson
Writers

Cast

Michael Keaton

as Robert Wiener

Helena Bonham Carter

as Ingrid Formanek

Joshua Leonard

as Mark Biello

Lili Taylor

as Judy Parker

David Suchet

as Naji Al-Hadithi

Bruce McGill

as Peter Arnett

Michael Murphy

as Tom Johnson

Robert Wisdom

as Bernard Shaw

Paul Guilfoyle

as Ed Turner

Clark Gregg

as Eason Jordan

Hamish Linklater

as Richard Roth

John Carroll Lynch

as Josh Holliman

Michael Cudlitz

as Tom Murphy

Pamela Sinha

as Fatima

Matt Keeslar

as Nic Robertson

Kurt Fuller

as Inky

David Kaye

as Ben Dupont

Jimmy Palumbo

as News Producer

David Shatraw

as Joe Wilson

Peter Jason

as Stu

Brian George

as Al Rasheed Manager

Jerry Haleva

as Saddam Hussein

Mark Arnott

as Bob Furnad

Inny Clemons

as CNN Deskman

Chet Grissom

as Will King

Val Lauren

as CNN Technician

Kymberly Newberry

as Secretary

Kurt Hargan

as CNN Control Room Manager

Paul Tranghese

as CNN Stage Manager

Tom Amandes

as Joe Erlichman

Thomas Crawford

as Nigel Babcock

James Waterston

as Eric

Bill Moseley

as Rex

Roy Werner

as Bob

John Ciccolini

as 1st Journalist

Andrew Borba

as 2nd Journalist

Jack Armstrong

as 3rd Journalist

Will Radford

as British Journalist #1

Kevin Brief

as Singing Brit #2

Steven Houska

as British Journalist #3

Murphy Dunne

as Bob Vinton

Lee Dawson

as Raymond Page

Michael James Kacey

as American Hostage #1

Craig Anton

as American Hostage #2

Jason Antoon

as Mr. Mazin

Carole Davis

as Mrs. Awatiff

Shaun Toub

as Sadoun Al-Jenabi

Mahryah Shain

as Al Rasheed Waiter

Joel Swetow

as Taxi Driver

Alan Desatti

as Iraqi Guard #1

Ofer Samra

as Iraqi Bomb Shelter Guard

Jay Harik

as Sadam's Translator

David Franco

as Saddam's Security Man

Castulo Guerra

as Kuwaiti Doctor