Live from Baghdad (film)

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Live from Baghdad
Live from Baghdad DVD cover
Directed by	Mick Jackson
Produced by	George W. Perkins
Written by	Robert Wiener (book), Richard Chapman, John Patrick Shanley
Starring	Michael Keaton, Helena Bonham Carter, Bruce McGill
Distributed by	HBO
Release date(s)	December 7, 2002
Running time	1 hour 48 minutes
Language	English
IMDb profile

Live from Baghdad is a television movie produced in 2002 by HBO. Directed by Mick Jackson and written by Robert Wiener (based on the book of the same title by Robert Wiener).

Michael Keaton stars as CNN on-location producer Robert Wiener in Baghdad, Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War. The movie 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.

The movie received some criticism for its inclusion of the journalists' attempt to investigate claims that infants were being removed from their incubators in Iraqi hospitals. The scene in the movie suggests doctors were trying to hide something, but it was later determined that the allegations were untrue. A disclaimer was added to later broadcasts and the home video version.

Most of the film was shot in Morocco.