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Dateline: Saigon (2017)

Directed by Thomas D. Herman
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Lies, deception, and the dangerous search for truth

1h 36min

Overall average

5.0/10

Plot

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.'

Genres

DocumentaryHistory

Technical details

DetailValue
Original titleDateline: Saigon
Original languageEnglish (EN)
Spoken languagesEnglish
Production countriesGermany, Iraq, Netherlands, United States of America, Vietnam
StatusReleased
Production companiesNorthern Light Productions, Good Neighbor Productions
Release date7 marzo 2017
Executive producerRichard Chapman
ProductionAmy Macd, Marianne Harris, Susan Grey, Randel Cole, Bestor Cram, Thomas D. Herman
WriterThomas D. Herman
EditingWilliam A. Anderson, Steven Miloszewski, David Bigelow, Jenni Matz
CinematographyRandel Cole, Bestor Cram, Steve Keeny, Mark Bakker, Abdulkarim Sabham
Assistant directorsThomas D. Herman
Camera operatorsRandel Cole, Bestor Cram, Steve Keeny, Mark Bakker, Abdulkarim Sabham
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Release dates

Limited release

United States / Mar 07, 2017 / NR / Salem, MA film festival

Digital

United States / May 10, 2016

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