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Dateline: Saigon

Dateline: Saigon

# Lies, deception, and the dangerous search for truth
Documentary   History
📜 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.'
🌏 Languages Available: English
📆 Date Released: 2017-03-07
⌚ Running Time: 96 mins
⭐ Vote Average: 8.0

Beloved Cast

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

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