Live From Baghdad
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Liz Radley
Mahryah Shain
Joshua Leonard
Michael Keaton
Roy Werner
Michael Cudlitz
Film Details
Synopsis
A dramatization of CNN's coverage of the Gulf War. In August 1990, CNN producer Robert Wiener, along with his producing partner and alter ego Ingrid Formanek, led their group of journalists and crew to the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, a few months before the U.N.-imposed deadline for the Iraqis to withdraw their presence from the neighboring, oil-rich nation of Kuwait. With the "Big Three" networks scrambling to get the story, CNN's Wiener put aside personal safety to cover the crisis as it escalated to war, contending with everything from antiquated transmission equipment to Iraqi attempts at manipulating and censoring his stories. Despite all obstacles, the CNN crew made history by becoming the only American network to broadcast continuous coverage live from Baghdad as the war erupted.
Cast
Mahryah Shain
Joshua Leonard
Michael Keaton
Roy Werner
Michael Cudlitz
Jason Antoon
Kurt Hargan
Andrew Borba
Carole Raphaelle Davis
Bruce Mcgill
Martin Tillman
Jay Harik
Kymberly S. Newberry
Matt Keeslar
Brian George
Bill Moseley
Val Lauren
Clark Gregg
John Carroll Lynch
Paul Guilfoyle
Alan Desatti
Lee Dawson
John Ciccolini
David Shatraw
Homie Doroodian
Emily Rose Debinie
Ofer Samra
Craig Anton
Jack Armstrong
Kurt Fuller
Tom Amandes
Mark Arnott
Joel Swetow
David Franco
Steven Houska
Jimmy Palumbo
Pamela Sinha
Gene Molnar
Thomas Crawford
Peter Jason
Rafael Petrosian
Michael Murphy
Hugh Marsh
David Suchet
Inny Clemons
Michael James Kacey
David Kaye
Daniel Beer
Cos Dellin
Murphy Dunne
John Sawoski
Shaun Toub
Castulo Guerra
Chet Grissom
Helena Bonham Carter
Will Radford
Hamish Linklater
Jerry Haleva
Kevin Brief
James Waterston
Lili Taylor
Robert Wisdom
Paul Tranghese
Crew
Adil Abdelwahab
Ahmed Abounouom
Karim Abouobayd
Toufiq Abouobryo
Paul Abraham
Michael Adams
Christopher Ahern
Mustapha Ait Lahcen
Gregg Allman
Hassan Amiri
Randy Anderson
Amina Annabi
Rick Ash
Mustaq Ashrafi
Jalal Aziz
Rod Bacote
Suzan Bagdadi
Abdelhafid Balafrej
Majid Balafrej
Lloyd Barcroft
Jennifer Baum
Géraldine Beagé
Ben Beaird
Ken Beauchene
Sally Sue Beisel
Tarik Ait Ben Ali
Amina Ben Cherki
Jinane Ben Zaida
David Berryman
Linden Bierman-lytle
David Bilow
Deborah Latham Binkley
Kathleen Tomasik Black
James Bladon
P. J. Bloom
Craig Blumenthal
Khalid Boulasri
Khalid Bouslamti
Gene C Bowen
Goran Bregovic
Thomas Briggs
Al Broussard
Michael Buster
Colin Campbell
Glenn Cannon
Patricia Carr
Mike Cassidy
Steve Castaneda
Bryan Cazan
Camille Cellucci
Mohammed Chaoui
Richard Chapman
Richard Chapman
Conrad Chitwood
Vicky Choy
El Mokhtar Chrouh
Jean Clark
Arthur Coburn
Gerrard Coffey
Sara Colleton
Tony Colton
Glenn Coopersmith
Joe Couillard
David Crawford
Loren Dennis
Matt Disarro
Ivan Doroschuk
Ahmed Wahbi Driche
Bernie Druckman
Mitch Dubin
Jay Durrwachter
Bo Ehrig
Khalid El Fazziki
Ourssel El Kilali
Yann Mari Faget
Said Faraj
Juanita Diana Feeney
Anastascia Feldman
Lisa Fischer
Kevin 'rambo' Fitzgerald
Neil Fleischbein
David Craig Forrest
David A Foster
David Frederick
Louise Frogley
Neil Gahm
Driss Gaidi
Katy Tatian Genovese
Said Ghaine
Marco Giacalone
Ernest Gold
Jeffrey A Gold
Karen Golden
Barry E Golob
Mary Grace
Hal Groshon
Kris Guthrie
Robert Hale
Souheil Hallaoui
Aziz Hamichi
Oscar Hammerstein Ii
Hind Hanif
Khadijr Hannor
Ahmed Hatimi
Thomas D Herman
John Hill
John Holliman
Richard Hoover
Joe Hutshing
Zine Eddine Ibnou Jabal
Scott Y Indue
Steve Irwin
Mustapha Ismaili-alaoui
Steve Jablonsky
Steve Jablonsky
Matthew Jacobs
Jim Jacobsen
Jim Jacobsen
Ronald O Jaynes
Adam Jenkins
Brian A Johnson
Ross Judd
Brian Kasch
Jonathan Keeton
Terry Kempf
Sana El Kilali
Christina Kim
Kim Kirschbaum
Evyen Klean
Randall D Krasomil
April Krueger
Matt Kutcher
Nick Liampetchakul
Pat Liampetchakul
Kurt Lott
Khalil Lougmani
Malcolm Luker
Chris Machado
Christopher A Madrid
Giulio Magnolia
Tim Mallory
John Mang
Patrick Martin
Mary Mastro
Steve Meyers
Walter Mikowlski
Ann Marie Miller
Susan Mills
Nick Milner
Bob Minor
Bryce Moore
Roy Moore
Glenn T Morgan
Melissa Muik
Abdessalam N'gadi
Ahmed Naky
Joseph Napoli
Andy Nicholson
Wendy O'brien
Simon Oliver
Christine Orth
El Hassan Oubbane
Laila Oumani
Phil Palmer
John Papsidera
Steve Payne
George W Perkins
Richard Perkins
Matt J Pexa
Kristen Ploucha
Steven W Polon
Scott Rader
Dana Reaves Bolla
Hicham Regragui
Abdelhadi Rejraji
Majdouline Remmal
Mike Revell
Rosario R Reyes
Mohamed Rachid Rhattas
Mark Rhode
Deborah Ricketts
Larry Roberts
Richard Rogers
Bruno Roussel
Robert Ryan
Erin Sahlstrom
Katrina Salicrup
Jorge Sanchez
Dina Saunders
John Sawoski
Paul Saylor
Anthony Schmidt
Richard Schoen
Dana Schondelmeyer
Alan Schwartz
James L Sevin
Timothy J Sexton
John Patrick Shanley
Gregg Silk
Charles Skouras
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Miscellaneous Notes
Nominated for the 2003 Eddie Award for Best Edited Motion Picture for Non-Commercial Television by the American Cinema Editors (ACE).
Winner of the 2003 David L. Wolper Producer of the Year Award (Long-Form Television) from the Producers Guild of America (PGA).
Winner of two 2003 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Joe Hutshing) and Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (John Papsidera), from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Also nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (Helena Bonham Carter), Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special (Mick Jackson), Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special (Robert Wiener, Richard Chapman, John Patrick Shanley, and Timothy J. Sexton), Outstanding Made for Television Movie, Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Richard Hoover, Matthew C. Jacobs, and Brian Kasch), and Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries or Movie (Ivan Strasburg).
Aired in United States December 7, 2002
Aired in United States June 24, 2003
Originally developed as a feature film with Parkway and Universal Pictures.
