Live from Baghdad (2002)

Directed by

Mick Jackson

Genre

drama film, biographical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

12

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 55 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A CNN producer and his crew risk their lives to report from Baghdad during the Gulf War. The film shows the chaos of trying to broadcast live as bombs fall and the ethical compromises made for round-the-clock news coverage.

tenseurgentdarkly comiccerebralfast-pacedclaustrophobicmorally gray

What happens

Live from Baghdad is a 2002 American war drama television film directed by Mick Jackson. The screenplay by Robert Wiener, Richard Chapman, John Patrick Shanley and Timothy J. Sexton is based on Wiener's 1992 book. The film premiered on HBO on December 7, 2002, during the prelude stage of the Iraq War. Michael Keaton stars as Wiener, a CNN on-location producer in Baghdad, Iraq during the Gulf War in 1991. The film 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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