Movie: Dateline: Saigon

Top 7 Billed Cast

Sam Waterston
Sam Waterston

Narrator (voice)

Neil Sheehan
Neil Sheehan

Self

Peter Arnett
Peter Arnett

Self

Malcolm Browne
Malcolm Browne

Self

Horst Faas
Horst Faas

Self

David Halberstam
David Halberstam

Self

Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite

Self (archival footage)

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    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.'

  • Release Date

    2017-03-07

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  • Tagline

    Lies, deception, and the dangerous search for truth

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    English
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