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Dateline: Saigon (2017)

ALL 03/07/2017 (en) Documentary, History 96 Min
  • Release
    03/07/2017
  • Production
    Northern Light Productions, Good Neighbor Productions
  • Rotten tomato
    80%
  • Original title
    Dateline: Saigon
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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.'

  1. Thomas D. Herman

    Director

  2. Story



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  1. Sam Waterston

    Narrator (voice)

  2. Neil Sheehan

    Self

  3. Peter Arnett

    Self

  4. Malcolm Browne

    Self

  5. Horst Faas

    Self

  6. David Halberstam

    Self

  7. Walter Cronkite

    Self (archival footage)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 7 , Crews : 25

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Dateline: Saigon (2017) 96 Min

ALL 03/07/2017 (en)
Documentary, History
  • Release 03/07/2017
  • Production
    Northern Light Productions, Good Neighbor Productions
  • Original title Dateline: Saigon
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

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.'

  1. Thomas D. Herman

    Director

  2. Story

  3. William A. Anderson, Steven Miloszewski

    Editor

  4. Thomas D. Herman, Bestor Cram

    Producer



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