Live From Baghdad

As America geared itself for another possible armed conflict in Iraq, the HBO cable service offered a dramatization of events surrounding the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Originally telecast on December 8, 2002, Live From Baghdad recounted the efforts by the CNN network to be first on the scene when ...more

Mick Jackson's Live From Baghdad works as an entertaining and effective drama, but it provides disappointingly inadequate context in its depiction of the events surrounding the 1991 Gulf War. For example, in one crucial scene the CNN team in Baghdad (well-played by Michael Keaton, Helena Bonham Carter, and Lili Taylor) travels to Kuwait (at the invitation of the Iraqi Ministry of Information) to visit a hospital in order to investigate allegations that Iraqi soldiers were taking Kuwaiti infants ...more