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A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.


“No story is worth dying for. But this was the story of a lifetime.”
A group of CNN reporters venture to the Iraqi capital to cover the Gulf War.

Michael Keaton
Robert Wiener

Helena Bonham Carter
Ingrid Formanek

Joshua Leonard
Mark Biello

Lili Taylor
Judy Parker

David Suchet
Naji Al-Hadithi

Bruce McGill
Peter Arnett

Michael Murphy
Tom Johnson

Robert Wisdom
Bernard Shaw

Paul Guilfoyle
Ed Turner

Clark Gregg
Eason Jordan
Live from Baghdad is a drama, war, tv movie film released in 2002 exploring themes of hotel, gulf war, based on novel or book, war correspondent, journalism, iraq. Directed by Mick Jackson, it stars Michael Keaton, Helena Bonham Carter, Joshua Leonard. A group of CNN reporters venture to the Iraqi capital to cover the Gulf War.
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