Live from Baghdad
Breaking News - Making History
108 mins
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.
Mark Arnott
Bob Furnad
Kymberly Newberry
Secretary
Kurt Hargan
CNN Control Room Manager
Paul Tranghese
CNN Stage Manager
Alan Desatti
Iraqi Guard #1
Ofer Samra
Iraqi Bomb Shelter Guard
Joe Hutshing
Editor
Ivan Strasburg
Director of Photography
Richard Hoover
Production Design
Geyer Kosinski
Executive Producer
Karen Golden
Script Supervisor
Richard Chapman
Co-Producer
Robert Wiener
Co-Producer
Matthew C. Jacobs
Art Direction
George W. Perkins
Producer
Rosalie Swedlin
Executive Producer
Juanita Diane Feeney
Associate Producer
Louise Frogley
Costume Design
Brian Kasch
Set Decoration
Sara Colleton
Executive Producer
Merie Weismiller Wallace
Still Photographer
Thomas D. Herman
Co-Producer
Ahmed Abounouom
Art Direction
Mary L. Hart-Mastro
Hairstylist
Robert Ryan
Makeup Artist
Richard Chapman
Writer
Timothy J. Sexton
Writer
Rick Ash
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Latifa Souihi Maadani
Makeup Artist
Amina Ben Cherki
Hairstylist
Michael Cassidy
Stunt Coordinator
Mustaque M. Ashrafi
Makeup Artist