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Live From Baghdad

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Live From Baghdad
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1hr 40min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
2002
Director:
Mick Jackson
Distributor:
HBO Home Video
Starring:
Michael Keaton, Helena Bonham Carter, Lili Taylor  ...more
Synopsis: As America geared itself for another possible armed conflict in Iraq, the HBO cable service offered a dramatization of events surrounding the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Originally telecast on December 8, 2002, Live From Baghdad recounted the efforts by the CNN network to be first on the scene when hostilities broke out in the Gulf in late 1990. Inaugurating round-the-clock coverage of the warfare with the invasion of Kuwait, dauntless CNN producers Robert Wiener (Michael Keaton) and Ingrid Formanek (Helena ... Full Synopsis
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Josh Ralske, AMG Review
Mick Jackson's Live From Baghdad works as an entertaining and effective drama, but it provides disappointingly inadequate context in its depiction of the events surrounding the 1991 Gulf War. For example, in one crucial scene the CNN team in Baghdad (well-played by Michael Keaton, Helena Bonham Carter, and Lili Taylor) travels to Kuwait (at the invitation of the Iraqi Ministry of Information) to visit ... Full Review
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Michael Keaton
Robert Wiener
Helena Bonham Carter
Ingrid Formanek
Lili Taylor
Judy Parker
Joshua Leonard
Mark Biello
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