Dateline: Saigon

Dateline: Saigon (2017)

Released: 2017-03-07 Duration: 1hr 36min
Rating 8.0
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.'

Production Companies

Northern Light Productions
Northern Light Productions
Good Neighbor Productions

Additional Info

Budget $0.00
Revenue $0.00
Original Language en
Popularity 1.137

Directed By

Thomas D. Herman

Crew

Associate Producer
Amy Macd
Associate Producer
Marianne Harris
Director of Photography
Steve Keeny
Director of Photography
Randel Cole
Associate Producer
Susan Grey
Director of Photography
Mark Bakker
Director of Photography
Bestor Cram
Sound Recordist
Pepijn Aben
Post Production Supervisor
Lorie Conway
Sound Recordist
Dominique Siemens
Online Editor
David Bigelow
Colorist
David Bigelow
Director of Photography
Abdulkarim Sabham
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Greg McCleary
Sound Editor
Geof Thurber
Archival Footage Research
Jenni Matz
Producer
Bestor Cram
Executive Producer
Richard Chapman
Co-Producer
Randel Cole

TOP CAST

Sam Waterston
Sam Waterston

Narrator (voice)

Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite

Self (archival footage)

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