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Live From Baghdad, co-written with former CNN producer Rober Wiener, starred Michael Keaton as Wiener and Helena Bonham Carter as CNN producer Ingrid Formanek. During the first Gulf War, Wiener and Formanek — with CNN anchor Bernard Shaw and reporters Peter Arnett and John Holliman — filed reports live from the Iraqi capital even as bombing commenced. The film was nominated for three 2003 Golden Globe Awards: best miniseries or TV movie, best actor (Keaton) and best actress (Bonham Carter).

Shooting The Messengers offers a broad, behind-the-scenes view of how journalists in all media — print, broadcast and photojournalism — covered the Vietnam War. Scheduled for theatrical release in fall 2003, the film is culled from more than 50 hours of new interviews with such icons of American journalism as Walter Cronkite, David Halberstam and Frances Fitzgerald. Contrary to popular wisdom, Chapman relates how, in the early 1960s, reporters like Halberstam and Malcolm Browne of The New York Times and Neil Sheehan of UPI came to Vietnam "with the expressed purpose of reporting the war in favorable terms, of being 'on the team,'" but grew increasingly disenchanted as they found themselves manipulated and lied to by South Vietnamese and American officials.