Live from Baghdad 2002

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 110 min

genre: drama

theme: biographical

director: Mick Jackson

Score: 5 / 10

Live from Baghdad is a television movie produced in 2002 by HBO. It was directed by Mick Jackson and co-written by Robert Wiener based on Wiener's book of the same title. The movie was released during the prelude stage of the Iraq War.

Plot

On August 2, 1990, Iraqi forces and tanks roll into Kuwait City, as the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait begins. In Atlanta, CNN picks Robert Wiener (Michael Keaton) and his crew to go to Baghdad and cover the invasion. At Rome International Airport, Wiener meets his colleague and producer Ingrid Formanek (Helena Bonham Carter). Wiener and his crew arrive in Baghdad on August 23, and stay at the Al-Rasheed Hotel.

Cast

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author	John Patrick Shanley
director	Mick Jackson
editor	Joe Hutshing
genre	drama
keywords	air force base al-rasheed hotel archival footage atlanta ba\'athist iraq baghdad bernard shaw bomb build cbs cnn cnn center cnn headquarters dan rather defense secretary dick cheney f-117 nighthawk force four-wire four-wire circuit george h. w. bush hawaii hotel room invasion of kuwait iraqi iraqi army iraqi soldier john holliman jordan kuwait city leonardo da vinci–fiumicino airport live feed lockheed f-117 nighthawk naji al hadithi naji sabri nbc news peter arnett report rome international airport saddam hussein tom brokaw united nations united states secretary of defense
musicBy	Steve Jablonsky
producer	George W. Perkins
publisher	Home Box Office
theme	biographical war