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Live from Baghdad

07 Dec 2002
108 min
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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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Michael Keaton

Robert Wiener

Helena Bonham Carter

Ingrid Formanek

Bruce McGill

Peter Arnett

Robert Wisdom

Bernard Shaw

John Carroll Lynch

Josh Holliman

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Lili Taylor

Judy Parker

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David Suchet

Naji Al-Hadithi

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David Kaye

Ben Dupont

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