Dateline: Saigon
Lies, deception, and the dangerous search for truth
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.'
Directed by Thomas D. Herman · Written by Thomas D. Herman
Where to Watch
Streaming
Rent or Buy
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)
Make it a double feature
3h 24m together
Dateline: Saigon
Live from Baghdad
Both from Thomas D. Herman.
