Live from Baghdad (film)

Live from Baghdad is a television movie produced in 2002 by HBO. It was directed by Mick Jackson and written by Robert Wiener based on Wieners book of the same title. The movie was released during the prelude stage of the Iraq War.

On August 2, 1990, Iraqi forces and tanks roll into Kuwait City, as the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait begins. In Atlanta, CNN picks Robert Wiener Michael Keaton and his crew to go to Baghdad and cover the invasion. At Rome International Airport, Wiener meets his colleague and producer Ingrid Formanek Helena Bonham Carter. Wiener and his crew arrive in Baghdad on August 23, and stay at the AlRasheed Hotel.As they settle in their hotel rooms, they notice that they are being monitored. The crew report their first story on a young British boy held as a hostage by Saddam Hussein Jerry Haleva. As they continue to report stories, they get pressured by the Iraqi government. Wiener later meets the Iraqi Minister of Information Naji Al Hadithi David Suchet, and requests pieces of equipment and an interview with Hussein. As the movie goes on, Wiener and Al Hadithi become friends. ........

Source: Wikipedia