Movie Description
Dateline: Saigon
(2017)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.'
Featured Crew
- Director : Thomas D. Herman
- Producer : Thomas D. Herman,Bestor Cram
- Writer : Thomas D. Herman
- Editor : William A. Anderson,Steven Miloszewski
- Cast : Sam Waterston,Neil Sheehan,Peter Arnett,Malcolm Browne,Horst Faas,David Halberstam,Walter Cronkite
Cast
Narrator (voice)
Self
Self
Self
Self
Self
Self (archival footage)
Posters
Recommendations
Return
6.405
They Cloned Tyrone
6.583
Test
8.1
Little Dixie
5.8
Return
6.302
Lord
7.3
After We Fell
7.062
Return
6.87
The Menu
7.183
The Next 365 Days
6.413
Facts
Original TitleDateline: Saigon
Status Released
Release Information
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2017-03-07
Original LanguageEnglish
Runtime 01h 36m
Production CompaniesNorthern Light Productions,Good Neighbor Productions
Genres
- Documentary
- History
