LIVE FROM BAGDAD

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• Release Year: 2002
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: The Gulf War, 1991. No story was worth risking your life for... except the story of a lifetime.; ; 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, Wiener 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 ware 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.
• Cast: Michael Keaton, Helena Bonham Carter, Joshua Leonard, Lili Taylor, David Suchet, Bruce McGill, Michael Murphy, Paul Guilfoyle, Hamish Linklater, Michael Cudlitz, Robert Wisdom, Pamela Sinha, Clark Gregg, Matt Keeslar, Kurt Fuller, Mark Arnott, Inny Clemons, Chet Grissom, John Carroll Lynch, Val Lauren, Kymberly Newberry, Kurt Hargan, Paul Tranghese, Emily Rose Debinie, Tom Amandes, Thomas Crawford, David Kaye, James Waterston, Bill Moseley, Roy Werner, Jimmy Palumbo, John Ciccolini, Andrew Borba, Jack Armstrong, Will Radford, Kevin Brief, Steven Houska, Daniel Deca, David Shatraw, Murphy Dunne, Lee Dawson, Peter Jason, Michael James Kacey, Craig Anton, Jason Antoon, Carole Davis, Shaun Toub, Brian George, Mahryah Shain, Joel Swetow, Rafael Petrosian, Alan De Satti, Homic Dordodian, Ofer Samra, Jay Harik, David Franco, Jerry Haleva, Cos Dellin, Castulo Guerra, Daniel Beer, Homie Doroodian, Tulsi Ram, Ofea Samaa, Nayirah al-Sabah, Tariq Aziz, Kevin Bacon, James Baker III, Tom Brokaw, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Tom Foley, Saddam Hussein, Peter Jennings, Ted Koppel, Dan Rather, Bernard Shaw, Fred Ward, Mick Jackson, Robert Wiener
• Director: Mick Jackson
• Runtime: 1:48
• Company: Industry Entertainment, HBO Films
• Media Format: Movie