Dateline: Saigon (2017)

Dateline: Saigon (2017)

Lies, deception, and the dangerous search for truth 2017-03-07 Germany, Iraq, Netherlands, United States of America, Vietnam 96 Min. PG-13
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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.'

Cast

Sam Waterston is Narrator (voice)
Narrator (voice)
Neil Sheehan is Self
Self
Peter Arnett is Self
Self
Malcolm Browne is Self
Self
Horst Faas is Self
Self
David Halberstam is Self
Self
Walter Cronkite is Self (archival footage)
Self (archival footage)

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