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Live from Baghdad | |
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Genre | War drama |
Based on | Live from Baghdad by Robert Wiener |
Screenplay by |
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Directed by | Mick Jackson |
Starring | |
Music by | Steve Jablonsky |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
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Executive producers |
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Producer | George W. Perkins |
Cinematography | Ivan Strasburg |
Editor | Joe Hutshing |
Running time | 108 minutes |
Production company | Industry Entertainment |
Original release | |
Network | HBO |
Release | December 7, 2002 |
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Live from Baghdad is a 2002 American television war drama film directed by Mick Jackson and co-written by Robert Wiener, based on Wiener's book of the same title. 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.