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Release Date: 2002

Cast: Paul Guilfoyle, Lili Taylor, Clark Gregg, Bruce McGill, Mark Arnott, Pamela Sinha, Michael Murphy, Helena Bonham Carter, John Carroll Lynch, Hamish Linklater, Jerry Haleva, Kurt Fuller ...MORE

Cast: Paul Guilfoyle, Lili Taylor, Clark Gregg, Bruce McGill, Mark Arnott, Pamela Sinha, Michael Murphy, Helena Bonham Carter, John Carroll Lynch, Hamish Linklater, Jerry Haleva, Kurt Fuller, Robert Wisdom, Michael Keaton, Michael Cudlitz, Matt Keeslar, Joshua Leonard ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Television movie, Gulf War, Docudrama, War film, Biographical film, Political drama

Live from Baghdad is a television movie produced in 2002 by HBO. It was directed by Mick Jackson and written by Robert Wiener (based on the book of the same title by Wiener). The movie was released during the prelude stage of the Iraq War. Michael Keaton stars as CNN on-location producer Robert Wiener in Baghdad, Iraq during the Persian Gulf War in 1991. The movie focuses on the news media's (primarily CNN's) coverage of the war. Fundamentally an action–drama, the characters grapple with the ethics and implications of 24-hour journalism in the days leading up to and during the United... MORE

Live from Baghdad is a television movie produced in 2002 by HBO. It was directed by Mick Jackson and written by Robert Wiener (based on the book of the same title by Wiener). The movie was released during the prelude stage of the Iraq War. Michael Keaton stars as CNN on-location producer Robert Wiener in Baghdad, Iraq during the Persian Gulf War in 1991. The movie focuses on the news media's (primarily CNN's) coverage of the war. Fundamentally an action–drama, the characters grapple with the ethics and implications of 24-hour journalism in the days leading up to and during the United States-led bombing of Baghdad. On August 2, 1990, with Iraqi forces and tanks roll into Kuwait City, as the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait begins. In Atlanta, CNN picks Robert Wiener (Michael Keaton) and his crew to go to Baghdad and cover the invasion. At Rome International Airport, Wiener meets his colleague and producer Ingrid Formanek (Helena Bonham Carter). Wiener and his crew arrive in Baghdad on August 23, and stay at the Al-Rasheed Hotel. As they settle in their hotel rooms, they notice that they are being monitored. The crew report their first story on a young British boy held as a hostage by Saddam LESS