Live From Baghdad Director: Mick Jackson Cast: Michael Keaton, Helena Bonham Carter, Lili Taylor, Joshua Leonard
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- DVD Release Date: 06/24/2003
- Original Release: 2002
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- Sales Rank: 14,221
Scenes
Features
Closed Caption; Audio commentary with director Mick Jackson; Cast & crew bios; Chapter selection; Audio & subtitle selection
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Side #1 --
1. 24 - Hour Story [:05]
2. Arriving in Baghdad [5:14]
3. First Transmission [1:41]
4. Pursuing the Elusive [5:28]
5. Behind Protective Walls [1:32]
6. Repercussions [6:25]
7. Exclusive in Kuwait [1:07]
8. The Saddam Interview [1:07]
9. Released from Confinement [7:17]
10. Wire to Atlanta [:35]
11. Count Down [6:23]
12. Plans to Evacuate [1:13]
13. Blasts Over Baghdad [3:55]
14. CNN Leads [2:55]
15. End of the Beginning [4:03]
16. Credits [3:28]
Editorial Reviews
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 Bonham Carter), aided and abetted by on-the-scene reporters Bernard Shaw (Robert Wisdom), Peter Arnett (Bruce McGill), and John Holliman (John Carroll Lynch), among many others, represented the only American news service on the scene during the first night of bombing on January 16, 1991. Not only does Live From Baghdad celebrate the heroism (and meticulous fairness) of the CNN crew, but it also vividly demonstrates how a tiny but tenacious basic cable channel managed to out-scoop the Big Three networks, thereby becoming one of the most powerful and influential journalistic forces in the world. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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