Dateline: Saigon

Dateline: Saigon

2017
1h 36m
8.0

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Documentary History

"Lies, deception, and the dangerous search for truth"

Overview

How does a nation slip into war? Dateline-Saigon profiles the controversial reporting of five Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists -The New York Times' David Halberstam, the Associated Press' Malcolm Browne, Peter Arnett, and legendary photojournalist Horst Faas, and UPI's Neil Sheehan -- during the early years of the Vietnam War as President John F. Kennedy is secretly committing US troops to what is initially dismissed by some as 'a nice little war in a land of tigers and elephants.' 'When the government is telling the truth, reporters become a relatively unimportant conduit to what is happening,' Halberstam tells us. 'But when the government doesn't tell the truth, begins to twist the truth, hide the truth, then the journalist becomes involuntarily infinitely more important.'

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Production Information

Production Companies
Northern Light Productions Good Neighbor Productions
Production Countries
Germany Iraq Netherlands United States of America Vietnam
Spoken Languages
English

Keywords

vietnam war usa president foreign correspondent investigative journalism

Quick Facts

Release Date March 7, 2017
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt5128292

Cast

Sam Waterston
Sam Waterston

Narrator (voice)

Neil Sheehan
Neil Sheehan

Self

Peter Arnett
Peter Arnett

Self

Malcolm Browne
Malcolm Browne

Self

Horst Faas
Horst Faas

Self

David Halberstam
David Halberstam

Self

Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite

Self (archival footage)

Key Crew

Thomas D. Herman
Director
Thomas D. Herman
Writer
Bestor Cram
Producer
Thomas D. Herman
Producer
Richard Chapman
Executive Producer