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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Summary

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

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