Live from Baghdad
2002 · 108 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 4,901 VOTES · DIR. Mick Jackson
Overview
A group of CNN reporters wrestle with journalistic ethics and the life-and-death perils of reporting during the Gulf War.A Directors Guild Award-winning movie for director Mick Jackson, starring Michael Keaton and Helena Bonham Carter. In 1990, CNN was a 24-hour news network in search of a 24-hour story. They were about to find it in Baghdad. Veteran CNN producer Robert Wiener and his longtime producing partner Ingrid Formanek find themselves in Iraq on the eve of war. Up against the big three networks, Weiner and his team are rebels with a cause, willing to take risks to get the biggest stories and - unlike their rivals - take them live at a moment's notice. As Baghdad becomes an inevitable US target, one by one the networks pull out of the city until only the crew from CNN remains. With a full-scale war soon to be launched all around them, and CNN ready to broadcast whatever happens 24 hours a day, Wiener and Formanek are about to risk their lives for the story of a lifetime.
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00:00:17 -What's going on? -I don't see anything.
00:04:01 I went out on a limb for you back there. Let's don't fuck it up.
00:08:49 People are headed the other way.
00:12:11 -Room service. -Could you send up a Pepsi?
00:15:13 Now, maybe I fight America.
00:18:21 -one. -Yeah, here we go.
00:21:51 No, no way. We're in a read-and-burn mode now.
00:26:20 Mr. Robert Wiener?
00:30:07 You've borne untold suffering....
00:33:53 Are you frightened?
00:37:17 He throws us out for no reason, lets us back for no reason.
00:41:45 I want you to look at me and understand me.
00:46:49 How much do you get paid, anyway?
00:50:22 What the fuck are you looking at?
00:54:33 If an embargo could force the Americans to withdraw from one of their own states...
00:58:33 Do I know you?
01:03:17 Eaten up by loneliness, throw your inhibitions out of the window.
01:07:32 Thank you.
01:11:59 They are getting ready. War.
01:15:48 It's my walk on the moon.
01:19:18 Damn it, that was a different war in a different time.
01:24:38 We've lost the line.
01:28:52 We can all go up on the roof, gentlemen.
01:33:24 and you can rest assured that you are the envy...