Live from Baghdad by Mick Jackson
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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
Michael Keaton as Robert Wiener
Helena Bonham Carter as Ingrid Formanek
Joshua Leonard as Mark Biello
Lili Taylor as Judy Parker
David Suchet as Naji Al-Hadithi
Bruce McGill as Peter Arnett
Michael Murphy as Tom Johnson
Robert Wisdom as Bernard Shaw
Paul Guilfoyle as Ed Turner
Clark Gregg as Eason Jordan
Hamish Linklater as Richard Roth
John Carroll Lynch as Josh Holliman
Michael Cudlitz as Tom Murphy
Pamela Sinha as Fatima
Matt Keeslar as Nic Robertson
Kurt Fuller as Inky
David Kaye as Ben Dupont
Jimmy Palumbo as News Producer
David Shatraw as Joe Wilson
Peter Jason as Stu
Brian George as Al Rasheed Manager
Jerry Haleva as Saddam Hussein
Mark Arnott as Bob Furnad
Inny Clemons as CNN Deskman
Chet Grissom as Will King
Val Lauren as CNN Technician
Kymberly Newberry as Secretary
Kurt Hargan as CNN Control Room Manager
Paul Tranghese as CNN Stage Manager
Tom Amandes as Joe Erlichman
Thomas Crawford as Nigel Babcock
James Waterston as Eric
Bill Moseley as Rex
Roy Werner as Bob
John Ciccolini as 1st Journalist
Andrew Borba as 2nd Journalist
Jack Armstrong as 3rd Journalist
Will Radford as British Journalist #1
Kevin Brief as Singing Brit #2
Steven Houska as British Journalist #3
Murphy Dunne as Bob Vinton
Lee Dawson as Raymond Page
Michael James Kacey as American Hostage #1
Craig Anton as American Hostage #2
Jason Antoon as Mr. Mazin
Carole Davis as Mrs. Awatiff
Shaun Toub as Sadoun Al-Jenabi
Mahryah Shain as Al Rasheed Waiter
Joel Swetow as Taxi Driver
Alan Desatti as Iraqi Guard #1
Ofer Samra as Iraqi Bomb Shelter Guard
Jay Harik as Sadam's Translator
David Franco as Saddam's Security Man
Castulo Guerra as Kuwaiti Doctor
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