Live from Baghdad (2002)

Live from Baghdad
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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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Cast

Helena Bonham Carter
as Ingrid Formanek
Michael Keaton
as Robert Wiener
Bruce McGill
as Peter Arnett
John Carroll Lynch
as Josh Holliman
Michael Cudlitz
as Tom Murphy
Hamish Linklater
as Richard Roth
Lili Taylor
as Judy Parker
David Suchet
as Naji Al-Hadithi
Clark Gregg
as Eason Jordan
Paul Guilfoyle
as Ed Turner
Shaun Toub
as Sadoun Al-Jenabi
Jay Harik
as Sadam's Translator
Robert Wisdom
as Bernard Shaw
David Franco
as Saddam's Security Man
Brian George
as Al Rasheed Manager
David Kaye
as Ben Dupont
Tom Amandes
as Joe Erlichman
Joshua Leonard
as Mark Biello
Michael Murphy
as Tom Johnson
Castulo Guerra
as Kuwaiti Doctor
Joel Swetow
as Taxi Driver
Carole Davis
as Mrs. Awatiff
Matt Keeslar
as Nic Robertson
Val Lauren
as CNN Technician
Lee Dawson
as Raymond Page
Craig Anton
as American Hostage #2
Jimmy Palumbo
as News Producer
Jason Antoon
as Mr. Mazin
Chet Grissom
as Will King
Kevin Brief
as Singing Brit #2
Andrew Borba
as 2nd Journalist
Jack Armstrong
as 3rd Journalist
David Shatraw
as Joe Wilson
Steven Houska
as British Journalist #3
Thomas Crawford
as Nigel Babcock
Murphy Dunne
as Bob Vinton
Jerry Haleva
as Saddam Hussein
Inny Clemons
as CNN Deskman
John Ciccolini
as 1st Journalist

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