HBO produced a truly outstanding movie about CNN and its reporting of the
events leading up to the Gulf War and the war itself. Good use was made of
existing newsreel footage of the real events and people from President George
H,W. Bush to Saddam Hussein.
Michael Keaton and Helena Bonham-Carter play producing partners who get the assignment to cover the rising tensions between Iraq and the USA and its allies that led to the Gulf War. Before the war CNN as a news station had a viewership confined to political junkies. Their reporting put cable news on an equal footing with the big three VHS networks
in the supporting cast David Suchet a man expert at playing many ethnic types steals all scenes he's in as the Iraqi information minister. A history lesson is given as to how Kuwait was created post World War I to deny them the best ports at the head of the Persian Gulf. Of course his own country was created in those same post World War I conferences. But that's another story.
Live From Baghdad won a flock of Emmys sadly not one for David Suchet. And the following year we were at war with Iraq again.
Michael Keaton and Helena Bonham-Carter play producing partners who get the assignment to cover the rising tensions between Iraq and the USA and its allies that led to the Gulf War. Before the war CNN as a news station had a viewership confined to political junkies. Their reporting put cable news on an equal footing with the big three VHS networks
in the supporting cast David Suchet a man expert at playing many ethnic types steals all scenes he's in as the Iraqi information minister. A history lesson is given as to how Kuwait was created post World War I to deny them the best ports at the head of the Persian Gulf. Of course his own country was created in those same post World War I conferences. But that's another story.
Live From Baghdad won a flock of Emmys sadly not one for David Suchet. And the following year we were at war with Iraq again.