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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.

Genres: Drama, Thriller

Starring: Michael Keaton, Helena Bonham Carter, Joshua Leonard

Released: December 7, 2002

Runtime: 108.0

Popularity Rating: 2.554

United States of America

Robert Wiener Michael Keaton
Ingrid Formanek Helena Bonham Carter
Mark Biello Joshua Leonard
Judy Parker Lili Taylor
Naji Al-Hadithi David Suchet
Peter Arnett Bruce McGill
Tom Johnson Michael Murphy
Bernard Shaw Robert Wisdom
Fatima Pamela Sinha
Eason Jordan Clark Gregg
Nic Robertson Matt Keeslar
Ed Turner Paul Guilfoyle
Richard Roth Hamish Linklater
Tom Murphy Michael Cudlitz
Josh Holliman John Carroll Lynch
Inky Kurt Fuller
Ben Dupont David Kaye
News Producer Jimmy Palumbo
Joe Wilson David Shatraw
Stu Peter Jason
Al Rasheed Manager Brian George
Saddam Hussein Jerry Haleva

Art — Art Direction: Ahmed Abounouom
Art — Art Direction: Matthew C. Jacobs
Art — Production Design: Richard Hoover
Art — Set Decoration: Brian Kasch
Camera — Director of Photography: Ivan Strasburg
Camera — Still Photographer: Merie Weismiller Wallace
Costume & Make-Up — Costume Design: Louise Frogley
Directing — Director: Mick Jackson
Directing — Script Supervisor: Karen Golden
Editing — Editor: Joe Hutshing
Production — Associate Producer: Juanita F. Diana
Production — Casting: John Papsidera
Production — Co-Producer: Richard Chapman
Production — Co-Producer: Robert Wiener
Production — Co-Producer: Thomas D. Herman
Production — Executive Producer: Geyer Kosinski
Production — Executive Producer: Rosalie Swedlin
Production — Executive Producer: Sara Colleton
Production — Producer: George W. Perkins
Sound — Original Music Composer: Steve Jablonsky