Live from Baghdad

Live from Baghdad (2002)

Breaking News - Making History

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.

star 6.7 7.2 78%
  • Release Date: 2002-12-07
  • Runtime: 1h 48min
  • Director: Mick Jackson

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Cast

  • Michael Keaton

    Robert Wiener

  • Helena Bonham Carter

    Ingrid Formanek

  • Joshua Leonard

    Mark Biello

  • Lili Taylor

    Judy Parker

  • David Suchet

    Naji Al-Hadithi

  • Bruce McGill

    Peter Arnett

  • Michael Murphy

    Tom Johnson

  • Robert Wisdom

    Bernard Shaw

  • Paul Guilfoyle

    Ed Turner

  • Clark Gregg

    Eason Jordan

  • Hamish Linklater

    Richard Roth

  • John Carroll Lynch

    Josh Holliman

  • Michael Cudlitz

    Tom Murphy

  • Pamela Sinha

    Fatima

  • Matt Keeslar

    Nic Robertson

  • Kurt Fuller

    Inky

  • David Kaye

    Ben Dupont

  • Jimmy Palumbo

    News Producer

  • David Shatraw

    Joe Wilson

  • Peter Jason

    Stu

  • Brian George

    Al Rasheed Manager

  • Jerry Haleva

    Saddam Hussein

  • Mark Arnott

    Bob Furnad

  • Inny Clemons

    CNN Deskman

  • Chet Grissom

    Will King

  • Val Lauren

    CNN Technician

  • Kymberly Newberry

    Secretary

  • Kurt Hargan

    CNN Control Room Manager

  • Paul Tranghese

    CNN Stage Manager

  • Tom Amandes

    Joe Erlichman

  • Thomas Crawford

    Nigel Babcock

  • James Waterston

    Eric

  • Bill Moseley

    Rex

  • Roy Werner

    Bob

  • John Ciccolini

    1st Journalist

  • Andrew Borba

    2nd Journalist

  • Jack Armstrong

    3rd Journalist

  • Will Radford

    British Journalist #1

  • Kevin Brief

    Singing Brit #2

  • Steven Houska

    British Journalist #3

  • Murphy Dunne

    Bob Vinton

  • Lee Dawson

    Raymond Page

  • Michael James Kacey

    American Hostage #1

  • Craig Anton

    American Hostage #2

  • Jason Antoon

    Mr. Mazin

  • Carole Davis

    Mrs. Awatiff

  • Shaun Toub

    Sadoun Al-Jenabi

  • Mahryah Shain

    Al Rasheed Waiter

  • Joel Swetow

    Taxi Driver

  • Alan Desatti

    Iraqi Guard #1

  • Ofer Samra

    Iraqi Bomb Shelter Guard

  • Jay Harik

    Sadam's Translator

  • David Franco

    Saddam's Security Man

  • Castulo Guerra

    Kuwaiti Doctor

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