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Dateline: Saigon

03/07/2017

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1hr 36min

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Documentary

,History

Lies, deception, and the dangerous search for truth

STORY

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 & CREW

    Cast

  • Sam Waterston
  • Neil Sheehan
  • Peter Arnett
  • Malcolm Browne
  • Horst Faas

    Directors

  • Randel Cole
  • Bestor Cram
  • Jenni Matz

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Northern Light Productions
  • Good Neighbor Productions

    Production Countries

  • Germany
  • Iraq
  • Netherlands
  • United States of America
  • Vietnam

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Sam Waterston

Narrator (voice)

Neil Sheehan

Self

Peter Arnett

Self

Malcolm Browne

Self

Horst Faas

Self

David Halberstam

Self

Walter Cronkite

Self (archival footage)

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