Claim: Michael Keaton acts.

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 Wiener 's book of the same title . The movie was released during the prelude stage of the Iraq War .   Michael Keaton stars as CNN on-location producer Robert Wiener in Baghdad , Iraq during the Persian Gulf War in 1991 . The movie focuses on the news media 's -LRB- primarily CNN 's -RRB- 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 .