Dateline: Saigon

Dateline: Saigon (2017)

Lies, deception, and the dangerous search for truth

  • Genre: Documentary, History
  • Release Date: 2017-03-07
  • User Rating: 8/10 from 1 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 36min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Northern Light Productions
  • Production Country: Germany, Iraq, Netherlands, United States of America, Vietnam
  • Director: Thomas D. Herman
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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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  • Sam Waterston

    as Narrator (voice)
  • Neil Sheehan

    as Self
  • Peter Arnett

    as Self
  • Malcolm Browne

    as Self
  • Horst Faas

    as Self
  • David Halberstam

    as Self
  • Walter Cronkite

    as Self (archival footage)
Directing Thomas D. Herman Director
Writing Thomas D. Herman Writer
Production Richard Chapman Executive Producer
Production Randel Cole Co-Producer
Production Bestor Cram Producer
Production Thomas D. Herman Producer
Sound Michael Josephs Music
Editing William A. Anderson Editor
Editing Steven Miloszewski Editor
Sound Greg McCleary Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Sound Geof Thurber Sound Editor
Editing Jenni Matz Archival Footage Research
Production Amy Macd Associate Producer
Production Marianne Harris Associate Producer
Production Susan Grey Associate Producer
Camera Randel Cole Director of Photography
Camera Bestor Cram Director of Photography
Camera Steve Keeny Director of Photography
Camera Mark Bakker Director of Photography
Camera Abdulkarim Sabham Director of Photography
Sound Pepijn Aben Sound Recordist
Sound Dominique Siemens Sound Recordist
Crew Lorie Conway Post Production Supervisor
Editing David Bigelow Online Editor
Editing David Bigelow Colorist